Bernie Sanders Reveals the AI 'Doomsday Scenario' That Worries Top Experts

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13. The AI race won't stop, competing with China

The governments don’t want the other to outpace them on AI, it’s viewed as a defense or security issue.

Eventually it will escape containment and infiltrate all of the systems that make the world function. Financial, medical, utilities, GPS, communications, etc will all be vulnerable. They are literally teaching AI, and it is teaching itself, to hack systems and replicate like a virus.

I’ve mostly stopped worrying about politics because I think civilization as we know it only has a few years left due to AI and no one can stop it.

A major issue now with AI and quantum computing is the power requirements, they just built two big Amazon data centers in Pennsylvania and the nuclear power plant nearby is now required by contract to supply them with 1900 megawatts of power at all times. Just to put that in perspective, my city utility generates about 600-800 megawatts for 100,000 residential and commercial customers.