In Silicon Valley and beyond, the architects of

are increasingly warning about the risks it poses to humanity.

CEO Dario Amodei wants the industry

. A former engineer at his company, who also worked at its rival

, told reporters

earlier this month that he was “genuinely frightened” unchecked AI development might mean “we could all die in the immediate future”.

Even

, the Nobel Prize-winning computer scientist known as the “godfather of AI”, has warned of

posed by the technology should it escape human control.

Concerns about AI run the gamut from autonomous weapons, mass unemployment and machine-driven cyberattacks to

, algorithmic bias and a dangerous overreliance on automation.