#AI #Skynet"An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the nex...

#AI #Skynet"An AI safety leader says he stopped saving for retirement because he believes AI will kill us all in the next 10 yearsSaving for retirement is a bet on the future. Nate Soares, the president of the Machine Intelligence Research Institute, isn't so sure AI will let us get that far.'I do not save for retirement right now. I have a 401(k) from when I worked at Google, but I haven't contributed for a decade,' Soares told The Atlantic CEO Nicholas Thompson in a recent interview for Thompson's 'The Most Interesting Thing in AI' series.Soares' decision reflects a grim view of the AI race.'Godfather of AI' Geoffrey Hinton and Anthropic researcher Evan Hubinger have, respectively, put the odds of AI killing everyone within a decade at 10% and more than 10%. Soares is more pessimistic: He told Thompson he believes there is a greater-than-50% chance AI causes human extinction in less than a decade.Soares, who is also the coauthor of 'If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies,' has spent more...