The danger of AI and the global race to control it - explained

What is going on with AI? Some of the most influential people in the world have warned its development must slow down - and that humanity risks extinction. Even King Charles warned an AI summit about “adequately considering the existential dangers of such technologies falling into the wrong hands, and being used in potentially catastrophic ways". It comes just days after a researcher at Anthropic, the company behind the Claude chatbot, quit after a bombshell post warning that colleagues believed AI could “kill us all by the end of the decade”. Anthropic says it continues to build some of the strongest safeguards in the industry. In the wake of these warnings, many have called for regulation to be put in place. But keeping AI safe comes at a cost - and America doesn’t want to fall behind in the tech race. Earlier this week, President Donald Trump posted on his Truth Social platform that the fears were “a hoax”. In this episode of the breakdown, we examine how dangerous AI could become, what effective regulation might look like and whether the world could ever agree on the rules needed to keep it under control. We put those questions to journalist and author Sebastian Mallaby - whose latest book charts the rise of the Google DeepMind research lab and its CEO. ------- Presenter: Ayshah Tull Producers: Tyler Anderson, Harry Peet Series Producer: Joseph Keith ------- 0:00 Introduction 0:41 Dangers of AI explained 4:18 Interview with Sebastian Mallaby 6:52 The frontier of AI 10:08 'Slowdown' warnings ------- Get more news at our site - https://www.channel4.com/news/ Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https://channel4news.substack.com/sub... Follow us: TikTok -   / c4news   Instagram -   / channel4news   Twitter -   / channel4news   Facebook -   / channel4news   #ai #technology