Could AI pose a threat to humanity, and can it be regulated?

Could AI pose a threat to humanity, and can it be regulated? The BBC’s AI analyst Marc Cieslak addressed audience inquiries about the technology, asking what AI is, whether it could pose a menace to humanity, and if it can be regulated or stopped. He warned that the deployment of AI by a hostile federation "could wreak implicit havoc that could origin tremendous problems." This follows criticism from US President Donald Trump aimed at Dario Amodei, the head of AI firm Anthropic, after Amodei advocated for a slowdown in the technology’s development. Shares of technology companies across Asia, Europe and the United States declined after the leaders of two major AI firms endorsed Amodei’s call to closely monitor progress "to trim the hazard that thing goes earnestly wrong".