As companies and tech leaders bet big on AI, society needs to grapple with potential negative outcomes, says the coauthor of a best-selling book. Researchers on the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) and leaders of many of the major platforms—from Jeffrey Hinton to Yoshua Bengio, Demis Hassabis, Sam Altman, Dario Amodei, and Elon Musk—have voiced concerns that AI could lead to the destruction of humanity itself.