Ex-OpenAI researcher says there's a 50% chance AI development could end in 'doom'

• A former OpenAI researcher is concerned AI poses a risk to humanity.
• Paul Christiano said during a podcast that there was a "maybe a 10-20% chance of AI takeover."
• Christiano now runs a non-profit but previously ran the language model alignment team at OpenAI.

A former OpenAI researcher says he's concerned AI poses a risk to humanity.

"I think maybe there's something like a 10-20% chance of AI takeover, [with] many [or] most humans dead, " Paul Christiano said during an appearance on the Bankless podcast. "I take it quite seriously."