Legendary Hedge Fund Manager, Paul Tudor Says AI Could Wipe Out Half The Population

On Tuesday, Paul Tudor Jones said that artificial intelligence (AI) posed an "imminent" security threat and that there was a 10% chance that AI would kill half of humanity in the next two decades.

Jones, the founder and chief investment officer of Tudor Investment, was speaking in a CNBC interview.

Jones told of an event he had attended, which had a technology panel consisting of four of the leading modelers of popular AI models used today.

One of his takeaways from the panel was that "AI clearly poses an imminent threat, security threat - imminent - in our lifetimes, to humanity."

"And one of the propositions was, there is a 10% chance in the next 20 years that AI will kill 50% of humanity," Jones said.

As per Jones, the "vast majority" of the room moved to the disagree side. Jones himself recalled how he had heard Tesla (TSLA) chief executive Elon Musk say there was "a 20% chance that AI can annihilate humanity" on Joe Rogan's podcast.

"And so about six or seven of us went to the agree side, and I'd gone there because of what I'd heard Elon Musk say, who's maybe the most brilliant engineer of our time. All four modelers were on the agree side of that," the American investor said.

"And one of the modelers says to the disagree side, if you don't think there is a 10% chance, as fast as these models are growing and how quickly they're commoditizing knowledge, how easily they're making it accessible, that someone can biohack. Biohack, because that's where the real weakness is. A weapon that could take out half of humanity. I don't know, 10% seems reasonable to me," he added.