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Innovators, activists, academics and even celebrities have banded together to issue a warning this week that the wipeout of the human race may be closer than it appears if urgent measures aren't taken to rein in artificial intelligence.

A brief, 22-word statement, signed by a long list of tech luminaries, CEOs and executives, instantly set off alarm bells. "Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI [artificial intelligence] should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks, such as pandemics and nuclear war," it said. 

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