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After a week of alarming warnings about the technology’s potential to destroy the world as we know it, our expert tech reporters will take your questions on the reality of the AI threat. Join us at 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) where they will answer live Sign up or sign in to ask your question The last week or so has seen disturbing claims about the capacity of superintelligent AI to destroy the planet .

It has also seen warnings coming from figures within the industry itself, including Anthropic’s report that criminals, state-sponsored groups, spyware vendors, scientists and propagandists have attempted to use its models to “design missiles and bombs, create deadly pathogens and surveil dissidents” and Elon Musk’s claim it could be “ more dangerous than nukes ”. Our reporting team has been trying to make sense of the scale of these claims. Is the great AI freakout justified?

They will be here from 3pm BST (4pm CEST, 10am EDT) to try and answer any questions you might have.

Read the original report at The Guardian.

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