Superintelligence Would Kill Us In Ways That Humans Can't Conceive Of | Tom Whipple

“You cannot conceive of what a superintelligence will do to kill you, just as ants cannot conceive of the technologies we will deploy to kill ants.” Self-designing AI superintelligence is a technology that people will not be able to cope with because workers at Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI will be “way out of their depth”, says The Times’s science writer Tom Whipple. Tom Whipple was speaking to Ayesha Hazarika on Times Radio. Listen live every Friday-Sunday from 1-4pm. Read the best of our journalism: https://www.thetimes.com/ Listen live to Times Radio: https://www.thetimes.com/radio/live Subscribe to The Times and The Sunday Times YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/subscription_... Find us on Facebook:   / timesandsundaytimes   Find us on X: https://x.com/thetimes Find us on Instagram:   / thetimes