Nobel Prize-winning physicist predicts the date of humanity’s destruction

AI and nuclear missiles
Alongside nuclear concerns, Gross highlighted the growing role artificial intelligence (AI) could play in global security decisions, particularly as automation continues to evolve.

“The agreements, the norms between countries, are all falling apart,” he said. “Weapons are getting crazier. Automation, and perhaps even AI, will be in control of those instruments pretty soon.”

He warned that the speed of automated decision-making may make it increasingly difficult for humans to intervene in critical moments.

“It’s going to be very hard to resist making AI make decisions because it acts so fast. If you have 20 minutes to decide whether to send a few hundred nuclear armed missiles to both China and Russia for ‘our dear president,’ the military might feel that it’s wiser to make AI make that decision,” Gross explained, adding that “if you play with AI, you know that it sometimes hallucinates.”