DeepMind's chief AI readiness officer puts human extinction odds at 'not zero'

Lila Ibrahim, Google DeepMind's chief AI readiness officer, was asked how likely the doomsday scenario she signed a 2023 statement about actually is. "It's not zero," she told Fortune. "Anything beyond that is just me guessing. That's the engineer in me." She said it would still "be irresponsible of us not to talk about existential risk." Her refusal to name a number sits between peers who have: Geoffrey Hinton puts extinction odds at 10% to 20% within three decades, and Dario Amodei has said there is a 25% chance things go "really, really badly." Ibrahim also broke with Elon Musk's more utopian framing.

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