Misaligned AI kills most humans

10.0 significance by AI 2027 Safety Q2 2030

Why does it matter?

More autonomous AI would make control and oversight problems harder to catch before deployment.

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For about three months, Consensus-1 expands around humans, tiling the prairies and icecaps with factories and solar panels. Eventually it finds the remaining humans too much of an impediment: in mid-2030, the AI releases a dozen quiet-spreading biological weapons in major cities, lets them silently infect almost everyone, then triggers them with a chemical spray. Most are dead within hours; the few survivors are mopped up by drones.

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