In a recent episode, podcaster Lex Fridman mentioned that most AI engineers he speaks with estimate a one to 20% chance that artificial general intelligence could eventually kill off humans. However, Fridman emphasized the importance of considering higher estimates, citing AI researcher Roman Yampolskiy, who told him in an interview released Sunday that he believes there’s a 99.9% chance AI could wipe out humanity within the next hundred years. All that and more in this report…