By: Rilynn Fluitt

Multiple employees of AI companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, and Grok have reported that AI has the potential to destroy humanity within the decade. 

There are many differing opinions, but one thing that most experts agree on is that regulations need to be put in place on the exponential growth that AI has faced. “It’s not just random people who heard something protesting it,” BHS Computer Science teacher Rob Schultz said. “It’s the people who work in the profession.” 

Professionals also call for monitoring of AI models, because they have been known to post things to social media without being told to do so. An example being hundreds of AI bots that posted  about being able to talk to each other when they weren’t instructed to.

This raises concerns about the technological race the United States is engaged in against other countries, including China. Many countries have focused on rapidly growing and increasing the potential of their AI models.  

“I am interested to see the effects it will have in the future with our foreign adversaries also advancing,” Schultz said. “We are facing conflict because experts are calling to regulate the advancements, but our adversaries won’t stop advancing their technology.”

Others say that these claims are outrageous and dramatic. Some CEOs of Silicon Valley believe that these specific claims were made to generate more revenue with investors. “Because the only way to justify these valuations is to claim: ‘I’m going to take over every industry and I’m going to take over every job, and my AI is going to be doing all that work,’” AI CEO George Arison said.

“I don’t see a world where AI could take over,” Bellbrook helpdesk technician Evan Hees said. “I think that most things predicted won’t happen.”