{"id":388601,"date":"2026-10-16T19:00:21","date_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/are-we-building-the-ai-that-destroys-us-bbc-news\/"},"modified":"2026-10-16T19:00:21","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T18:00:21","slug":"are-we-building-the-ai-that-destroys-us-bbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/are-we-building-the-ai-that-destroys-us-bbc-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Are we building the AI that destroys us? | BBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i2.ytimg.com\/vi\/eRRiAEdHtDY\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"Are we building the AI that destroys us? | BBC News\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/eRRiAEdHtDY\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>There have been sobering  warnings this week from MI5, the UK&#8217;s AI Minister and a number of security officials &#8211; AI is already a threat to our lives. <\/p>\n<p>But despite those fears, innovation and AI development continues at breakneck speed. <\/p>\n<p>So this week on AI Decoded we focus in on that central question of AI &#8211; should we accelerate the development of ever more powerful AI systems, or slow down before the risks become unmanageable?<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s the question at the centre of a major new film, Artificial, which explores the growing divide between OpenAI co-founders Sam Altman and Ilya Sutskever over the answer. <\/p>\n<p>To discuss it all, Marc Cieslak and Dr Stephanie Hare are joined by technology futurist Bernard Marr and AI safety researcher Roman Yampolskiy, one of the world&#8217;s leading voices on the risks posed by superintelligent AI.<\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our channel here: https:\/\/bbc.in\/bbcnews<\/p>\n<p>For the latest news download the BBC News app or visit BBC.com\/news<\/p>\n<p> 0:00 &#8211; Introduction<br \/>\n2:14 &#8211; The real threat of AI<br \/>\n10:05 &#8211; Waging war on data centres<br \/>\n12:03  &#8211; Can we control super intelligence?<\/p>\n<p>#RomanYampolskiy #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #BBCNews<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There have been sobering warnings this week from MI5, the UK&#8217;s AI Minister and a number of security officials &#8211; AI is already a threat to our lives. 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