Are tech companies jeopardising humanity's future with AI development?

While tech startups weather a dip in funding, generative AI reaps rewards at companies from Meta to Microsoft

'AI promises many incredible benefits, but the reckless and unchecked development of increasingly powerful systems, with no oversight, puts our economy, our society, and our lives at risk.'

A handful of tech companies are jeopardising humanity’s future through unrestrained AI development and must stop their “race to the bottom”, according to the scientist behind an influential letter calling for a pause in building powerful systems.

Max Tegmark, a professor of physics and AI researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, said the world is “witnessing a race to the bottom that must be stopped”.