The Sky Is Not Falling: A Serious Look at Whether AI Can Actually End the World

The AI apocalypse is not as inevitable as Silicon Valley's loudest voices would have us believe. The real risks of artificial intelligence are more complicated, more immediate, and far less cinematic. From cyber attacks and bioweapons research to biased algorithms and infrastructure failures, the dangers already emerging have little to do with a machine suddenly deciding to wipe out humanity. They have everything to do with how humans build, deploy, regulate, and profit from increasingly powerful systems.