Experts express grave concerns about the rise of artificial intelligence (AI), stating that unchecked AI “risks wiping out humanity.”
The “godfather of artificial intelligence,” Geoffrey Hinton, who left Google last year to voice his concerns about the risks of AI, is in the vanguard of these specialists. Hinton worries that we won’t be able to govern AI as he thinks it will soon surpass humans in intelligence.

Geoffrey Hinton was one of the first to establish neural networks, which paved the road for contemporary artificial intelligence. He was awarded the 2024 Nobel Prize in Physics for his groundbreaking work in this field.
He now advocates for global control of AI on par with nuclear energy. His biggest worry is that new technology will make it possible to create “killer robots” that are fully autonomous.
Cybersecurity specialist Alex Stamos shares Hinton’s worries. He cautions about the dangers artificial intelligence brings to combat in an opinion piece that was published in Le Monde on November 11. He uses autonomous weapons as an example, which might tip the scales by enabling AI to launch attacks without human assistance.
In his opinion piece, Stamos stated that “we are at a major inflection point in warfare, on the verge of moving from a war waged by humans assisted by AI to a war waged by AI assisted by humans.”
According to Stamos, a tipping point is approaching where AI may choose deadly assaults without human input, running the possibility of enabling war crimes because its decisions are quicker and more final.
Similar to Hinton, Stamos thinks that worldwide cooperation is necessary to govern AI before its abuses spiral out of control and send humanity “into a new dark era.”