Will AGI pose a threat to humanity? We asked 3 experts at TNW Conference

From Skynet to The Matrix, the possibility of machines one day being able to outsmart us has provided the backdrop to stories from science fiction books to the silver screen.

But with AI technology evolving at rapid speed, will it soon be time to say “hasta la vista baby” to humans’ control over machines?

Although many now agree that the trajectory towards Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) has been set, experts are divided on when we’ll reach this technological milestone. Several subscribe to the vague notion that it could happen “around 2050.”

Still, others, such as DeepMind co-founder Shane Legg, believe it could come as soon as 2028. When prompted earlier this year, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman provided the somewhat obscure timeline for development of AGI as in the “reasonably close-ish future.”

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