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How worried should you be about an AI apocalypse?

Fears that artificial intelligence could rise up to wipe out humanity are understandable given our steady diet of sci-fi stories depicting just that, but what is the real risk? Matthew Sparkes looks at what the experts say

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AI data centres can warm surrounding areas by up to 9.1°C

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How AI shook the world's largest meeting of physicists

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A team of Department of Defense drone operators and experts test the technical capabilities of various Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS) during a Defense Innovation Unit led prize challenge to identify platforms, components, and capabilities for Blue UAS, which clears and validates flying platforms are safe to fly, cyber-secure, and meet DOD requirements, at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, on Nov. 2-6, 2024. The Blue UAS Refresh Challenge included more than 35 platforms and companies, and an expert team of 40 military drone end-users with participation from each service branch and several major program offices in support of the Department???s ability to quickly scale and field commercially produced drone technologies for military and government use. (DOD photo by Devon Bistarkey, Defense Innovation Unit) https://www.war.gov/Multimedia/Photos/igphoto/2003592438/

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Route-planning AI cut climate-warming contrails on over 100 flights

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AI is nearly exclusively designed by men – here's how to fix it

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Mathematics is undergoing the biggest change in its history

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How an intern helped build the AI that shook the world

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Lee Sedol appears on TV screens

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The moment that kicked off the AI revolution

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AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations

Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95 per cent of cases

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Hannah Fry: 'AI can do some superhuman things – but so can forklifts'

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AI-assisted mammograms cut risk of developing aggressive breast cancer

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Ancient giant kangaroos could have hopped despite their huge size

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The one innovation that supercharged AI: Best ideas of the century

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