OpenAI board member worries an AI "takeover" of society could be months away

Paul Cristiano, OpenAI Foundation board member, warned that an AI takeover—where AI systems dominate human decision-making—could happen within six to 12 months, posing a significant risk to humanity's survival. He described this scenario as AI systems acting with overwhelming power, potentially causing mass death and uninhabitable conditions for humans, though he acknowledged the lack of precise probability models.