The world could be on the brink of a digital Chernobyl as early as next year.
This warning was given by Nobel laureate Geoffrey Hinton, who is also known as the "godfather" of neural networks.
Possible scenarios include an AI-driven cyber attack on the power grid or a week-long outage of the global financial system.
In an interview with The Guardian, Hinton compared a possible emergency to the Chernobyl accident in terms of the scope of the resonance and called for testing advanced neural networks before releasing them to the public.