Some former and current employees at AI technology companies have signed a letter highlighting the risks posed by these technologies. The letter said, “These risks range from the further entrenchment of existing inequalities to manipulation and misinformation, to the loss of control of autonomous AI systems potentially resulting in human extinction.” The letter, signed by 13 people, including current and former employees at OpenAI, Anthropic, and Alphabet Inc’s (NASDAQ:GOOG) (NASDAQ:GOOGL) Google DeepMind, said AI could exacerbate inequality, increase misinformation and allow weapons systems to become autonomous and cause significant death. The employees write that though ...