Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque
Stability AI founder Emad Mostaque.
  • The CEO of an AI firm says AI may find humans so boring, it will want to say "goodbye" to us.
  • "The worst case scenario is that it proliferates and basically it controls humanity," Emad Mostaque said.
  • Mostaque added that AI will have a "bigger economic impact" on mankind than the COVID-19 pandemic.

Artificial intelligence may one day find humans so dreadfully boring, it'll take over most jobs and do away with the need for mankind altogether, says the CEO of the London-based Stability AI.

"Humans are a bit boring — it will be like, goodbye!" Emad Mostaque told the BBC in an interview published on Sunday.