Could AI really wipe out humanity – six experts spell out the risks

The article examines claims that AI poses extreme risks to humanity, including threats to wipe out the internet through botnets (networks of compromised computers controlled remotely) and extinction-level dangers. Experts are divided: some researchers assign high probability percentages to these catastrophic scenarios, while critics argue these predictions lack scientific basis, concrete evidence, or falsifiability, noting that major internet infrastructure is well-defended and that humans, not AI systems, ultimately control critical decisions.