In a world increasingly anxious about the loss of jobs to artificial intelligence, Demis Hassabis, the CEO of Google DeepMind, has issued a chilling reality check: we’re worried about the wrong threat. It’s not automation or unemployment that keeps him up at night—but the terrifying possibility that AI may soon fall into the wrong hands.
Speaking to CNN, Hassabis warned that the most dangerous outcome of artificial intelligence isn’t economic disruption—it’s existential. While headlines scream about the professions most at risk, from…