Vitalik Buterin, creator of ETHUSD, believes that unfriendly artificial intelligence AI poses the biggest risk to humanity.
What Happened: Buterin said on Thursday June 9 that he believes that AI risk is the biggest thing that could potentially derail humanity over the next two or two centuries.
Buterin shared a paper by the AI theorist and writer Eliezer Yudkowsky that made a case for why the current research community isn't doing enough to prevent a future catastrophe by artificially generated intelligence.
When one of Buterin's Twitter followers suggested World War 3 was likely a bigger risk at the moment, the co-founder ofEthereum disagreed.
At the forefront of AI innovation are companies like Tesla developing a humanoid robot Optimus, which CEO Elon Musk said is the most important product the company is working on, even above its EV car business.
Musk said that the importance of Optimus will become apparent in the coming years.