AI extinction threat is ‘going mainstream’ says Max Tegmark

We speak to Max Tegmark, a professor at MIT and a signatory to the warning of the dangers of AI as an extinction level threat to humanity. Some of the world’s most influential tech geniuses and entrepreneurs say artificial intelligence poses a genuine threat to the future of civilization. Having lobbed the ball firmly in the court of global leaders and lawmakers the question is: will they have any idea what to do about it? Max Tegmark and Tony Cohn - professor of automated reasoning at the University of Leeds - discuss both the risks and the potential rewards of the AI future we are moving rapidly towards.