Top AI Developers Warn the Technology is Developing Too Rapidly

Some of the world’s leading creators of AI are uniting in warning of the dangers of the technology advancing too quickly and publicly calling for a slowdown.

They say that it could, in the not-too-distant future, actually outsmart the researchers who are building it and pose an existential threat to humanity.

NBC’s Christine Romans reports and Josh Tyrangiel, staff writer at The Atlantic and author of "AI for Good: How Real People Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Fix Things That Matter,"