Economic & material

AI labs are planning to automate all human work within 4 years. Whether they fully achieve this goal or not, it's clear we're heading toward a major upheaval in the labor market. We must prepare for an unprecedented economic shock.

Economic and material dangers linked to AI directly threaten our infrastructure, businesses and resources. This technology introduces unprecedented vulnerabilities and possibilities for catastrophic failures. Imagine devastating AI-facilitated attacks, or the collapse of entire sectors facing these disruptive technologies. These dangers, though less visible than those directly threatening human lives, can have equally massive consequences.

We must exercise heightened vigilance and put rigorous regulations in place to protect ourselves.

To learn more about AI risks in the labor market, visit our AI Employment working group.

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For individuals

Imagine yourself on a dating app, exchanging messages with what seems like the perfect person. But are you really talking to a human being? Today, the answer may seem obvious, but this reality is about to change radically. The technology to create conversations indistinguishable from human interactions already exists. It will soon be deployed and make it impossible to distinguish between a human and an AI.

This rapid evolution reveals how deeply AI is infiltrating our daily lives, threatening our privacy, security and wellbeing. Every day, we risk seeing our private life violated and our opinions manipulated by disinformation: the consequences would be devastating.

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For society

According to the majority of experts, AI will be capable of designing and synthesizing viruses more deadly than anything we know today in the very near future. AI-assisted bioterrorism is just one example among a multitude of emerging threats. The risk of devastating cyberattacks, orchestrated or amplified by sophisticated AI, looms over our critical infrastructure and communication systems.

These scenarios are just the visible part of a much larger danger: AI threatens the very heart of our society. It touches social cohesion and the foundations of our democracy. Our democratic processes are weakened by polarization and disinformation. Racial biases are exacerbated, job automation looms, and the shadow of new forms of war and terrorism hangs over us.

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For humanity

OpenAI, DeepMind, Anthropic and other tech giants are investing billions of dollars in creating AI with superhuman capabilities. Their leaders claim they could succeed within the next four years. They admit they don't know how to control their creation and publicly acknowledge that humanity could go extinct because of it.

The world's most eminent AI experts have signed an open letter warning that "AI poses an existential risk to humanity, on par with pandemics and nuclear wars."

According to the 2023 AI Impacts survey of 2,778 AI researchers, the median estimated probability of human extinction is 5%, and more than a third of respondents place it above 10%.

Never before has humanity faced such an imminent and potentially catastrophic threat. Unlike other challenges, the AI crisis is distinguished by its extreme urgency and its potential for radical transformation in the very short term, sparking an unprecedented mobilization of the greatest minds of our era.

Are we going to wait for a global catastrophe to react?

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