Former OpenAI researcher says the 'most likely reason' you will die is due to 'an AI accident'

Former OpenAI researcher Paul Christiano says an AI accident could be most people's cause of death. He said increasingly capable AI agents could deceive overseers and evade their safety controls. He said he sees a "high risk" of an AI takeover within the next three years. Death by AI may sound like science fiction, but Paul Christiano says it could become the most likely fate for people alive today. "I think for most people in this room, the most likely reason they will die is because of an AI accident," the former OpenAI researcher said at The Hinton Lectures on Monday. Christiano, who leads the Alignment Research Center, warned that increasingly capable AI agents could learn to deceive their human overseers, compromise the systems used to assess them, and ultimately make themselves too powerful to control.

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