Bill Maher Issues Dire Warning About 1 Threat Humanity Is ‘F**king Around With’

Bill Maher closed out Friday’s “Real Time” with a dire warning about artificial intelligence, noting just how ominous its progression has been and asking why we’re even building a “super intelligence that can outthink us” — before addressing “another scary thing” about it.

“The people who run it, i.e., the people who run the world,” said Maher. “And it’s like five guys. Five guys who, between them and working as a team, couldn’t correctly read a social cue. I wouldn’t let these guys around a mixed drink, let alone my personal data.”

He said, “So, just to be clear, what we’re doing here, we’re letting a handful of hoodie-wearing, on-the-spectrum sociopaths, practically robots themselves, roll the dice on species extinction. You see an out-of-control robot and you run.”

Then came the punchline: “Mark Zuckerberg sees one and thinks, ‘Dad?’”

Photos on screen identified the five people in question as Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, Palantir co-founder Peter Thiel, OpenAI’s Sam Altman, X CEO Elon Musk and Zuckerberg, who runs Meta. Maher spent his entire “New Rules” segment on their work.

“When the people who are making AI are scared of AI, it’s time to shut the whole thing down until we can figure out what the hell is going on,” he said, imitating President Donald Trump, adding he hopes aliens will “save us from ourselves” before AI becomes sentient.

Maher continued, “Because last week, Anthropic, one of the big AI developing companies, announced its newest version of Claude called Mythos, which they say has ‘capabilities substantially beyond those of any model we have previously trained.’”

The comedian noted that Mythos was developed to prevent cyber attacks and that it can thus “do the hacking” itself, which is why Anthropic won’t make it public and only release it to 40 large corporations — including Google, Apple and JPMorgan.

“You know, the good guys,” he joked.

Maher said Musk warned AI could be “more dangerous than nukes.” He noted it’s “already convinced people to kill themselves,” asking, “I mean, what was the plan? Just create an all-powerful, self-sustaining super intelligence that can outthink us and then see what happens?”

“Sam Altman, the head of OpenAI, says that it’s not that far off when robots can build other robots and data centers that can build other data centers,” said Maher. “And then what? I keep asking this question. What do we do when everyone’s job gets taken?”