Could superintelligent AI become a threat to human survival?

Maybe — many prominent AI researchers, including signatories to statements from the Center for AI Safety in 2023, have publicly said that mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside pandemics and nuclear war; other researchers view the risk as speculative or overstated. As Governments of 28 countries and the EU (Bletchley Declaration signatories), put it on the record: "There is potential for serious, even catastrophic, harm, either deliberate or unintentional, stemming from the most significant capabilities of these AI models."

Source: www.gov.uk/government/publications/ai-safety-summit-2023-the-bletchley-declaration/the-bletchley-declaration-by-countries-attending-the-ai-safety-summit-1-2-november-2023