Ex-Google Engineer Sparks Debate Over AI's Threat to Humanity

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A former Google AI expert is so convinced artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity that he’s stopped saving for retirement.

Machine learning researcher Nate Soares, who has worked as a software engineer at Google and Microsoft, said in a recent podcast episode with the CEO of The Atlantic that AI is more likely than not to wipe out humanity within the next decade.