EXCLUSIVEI've seen AI try to ESCAPE labs. The apocalypse is already here... and our children will be the first victims

Daily Mail ^ | 16:43 BST, 6 October 2025 | Updated: 16:43 BST, 6 October 2025 | ROB WAUGH

[E. Pluribus Unum]

Children born today are more likely to die as a result of insatiable 'alien' AI than they are to graduate high school, according to new research.

It is the grim prediction from one of the country's leading researchers - who says previous estimates about the risks of the developing technology have been 'ridiculously low.'

The world's top scientists have already said there is a 25 percent chance AI will destroy humanity.

But, Nate Soares told the Daily Mail: 'They are dramatically underestimating the dangers.'

In his new book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies, he and co-author Eliezer Yudkowsky warn that a human-AI conflict would be the modern equivalent of the Aztecs facing off invaders armed with guns.

Both men are veterans in the field - Yudkowsky even claimed to have helped inspire Sam Altman's interest in artificial general intelligence (systems as smart as people) and inspired him to start OpenAI.

And they both agree that the risks of human extinction at the hands of AI should be a global priority, alongside other threats like pandemics and nuclear war.

'Why would they want to kill us?' asked Soares. '[It] is not that they hate us, they are just totally, utterly indifferent, and they've got other weird things they're pursuing.

'You can imagine the chimpanzees saying, "Why would the humans want to kill us?" And the humans don't really want to kill chimpanzees, but we do want more wood for things, and so we take their jungles. Or we want copper buried underneath where they live.

'So it's not that the AIs want to kill us, it's that they have their own automated infrastructure and have huge energy needs, and they're replicating faster than we expected was possible.'

Most computer scientists...

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[E. Pluribus Unum]

An AI will (may) destroy humanity only if Microsoft is involved.

The Blue Screen of Death might save the world someday.

[GaltAdonis]

“Blue Screen of Death might save the world…”

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Maybe - but I doubt it.
I fail to believe that the BSOD can morph into something, anything, non-malevolent…

[gloryblaze]

OMG! OMG! I’d never heard of such a thing. So I look. Just picked ONE and I’m hooked!

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/uUfhiBmPIaM

[Libloather]

I, for one, welcome our artificial overlords.

[Reily]

I’ve even read the book - in jr high i think!

[mewzilla]

Hee hee! Good one! But if you thought that was cute...

https://youtu.be/eAfsVdDaCac?si=8NWw0fHsfUgk_fNN

https://youtu.be/4nCXFFubGek?si=s0YXO5ZWBEocAoU5

https://youtu.be/aNyQa5mNGcA?si=K-VXFQ-6noTH1NY9

Hope you like trash pandas.

[Paperpusher]

Ai is not a problem like creeping Communism.

[gloryblaze]

Uffdah! Raccoons are enemies around here so those videos were “complicated” for me, lol.

Anyway, I OD’s last night on this new entertainment (for now), so will maybe get my work done today!

Thanks again.