MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate
We're all probably feeling a little anxious about AI. It's horrible for the environment, is used as an excuse to fire workers, floods the internet with misinformation and slop, entrenches government surveillance, and appears to be literally driving people into psychosis. And so at a time when many college students are dropping out to join AI startups, one former MIT student says she called it quits because she's afraid of something altogether more dramatic: that an artificial general intelligence, or AGI, will completely wipe out the human race, Forbes reports. Quite literally, she feared for her life. "I was concerned […]
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