MIT Student Drops Out Because She Says AGI Will Kill Everyone Before She Can Graduate

Alice Blair, a former MIT student, left college fearing artificial general intelligence (AGI) would cause human extinction before her graduation. Now at the Center for AI Safety, Blair predicts most AGI scenarios lead to humanity's end. Some, like Harvard alum Nikola Jurković, share her concerns. However, AI researcher Gary Marcus dismisses these timeline predictions as hype, noting unsolved AI problems. Critics suggest the tech industry promotes extinction fears to exaggerate their technology's capabilities while distracting from AI's real current harms.