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"The A.I. Prompt That Could End the World," the New York Times warns ominously.

Actually, that’s way too weak a word. It’s… pretty frightening.

Columnist Stephen Witt writes: "The A.I. pioneer Yoshua Bengio, a computer science professor at the Université de Montréal, is the most-cited researcher alive, in any discipline. When I spoke with him in 2024, Dr. Bengio told me that he had trouble sleeping while thinking of the future. Specifically, he was worried that an A.I. would engineer a lethal pathogen – some sort of super-coronavirus – to eliminate humanity. ‘I don’t think there’s anything close in terms of the scale of danger,’ he said."

Yes, this is balanced with Meta’s AI chief, who sees a new era of prosperity, but w

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