Burkhard Maria Zimmermann<p>6/n</p><p>Uh-oh.</p><p>' <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Artificialintelligence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Artificialintelligence</span></a> companies have been urged to replicate the safety calculations that underpinned Robert <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Oppenheimer" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Oppenheimer</span></a> ’s first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/nucleartest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>nucleartest</span></a> before they release all-powerful systems. </p><p>Max <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Tegmark" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tegmark</span></a>, a leading voice in <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AI</span></a> safety, said he had carried out calculations akin to those of the US physicist Arthur <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Compton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Compton</span></a> before the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Trinitytest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Trinitytest</span></a> and had found a 90% probability that a highly advanced AI would pose an existential threat.' </p><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theguardian.com/technology/202</span><span class="invisible">5/may/10/ai-firms-urged-to-calculate-existential-threat-amid-fears-it-could-escape-human-control</span></a></p>