Scientists Claim There Is a 5% Chance AI Could Lead to Human Extinction


A sixth-grade teacher in Florida was sentenced to 135 years in prison for using AI to create child pornography. He shared student information and photos using the school's network during his time at school and distributed child sexual abuse content, and was arrested in June of this year.
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic has initiated preparations for an IPO, with the earliest listing expected in 2026. The company has hired Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati to assist with the process, preparing for what could be one of the largest IPOs in history.
HSBC has partnered with AI company Mistral to introduce advanced AI tools to improve business efficiency, focusing on optimizing internal processes such as multilingual document processing, translation, and document analysis, driving operational upgrades through technological innovation.
Founder of Xiaomi, Lei Jun, predicts that AI will deeply transform traditional industries in the next five years, proposing the idea that every industry is worth redoing with AI. He uses the Xiaomi car factory as an example to illustrate how AI and traditional manufacturing integration can significantly improve efficiency: using AI visual models to detect die-cast parts, reducing detection time to 2 seconds, with efficiency 10 times that of manual work, and accuracy improved by more than 5 times.
Early 2025, Trump's tariff pressures affected global technology companies. Starting in October, markets worried about the AI bubble, and investors became more cautious toward high-valued AI companies. As a major AI investor, SoftBank Group saw its stock plummet by 40% from October 31 to November 26, with a loss of nearly $50 billion in market value. This volatility was caused by multiple factors, not a single event.