Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman on Thursday questioned whether safeguards being developed by frontier artificial intelligence companies are keeping pace with the rapid advancement of the technology, citing the recent resignation of Anthropic researcher Jacob Coxon over concerns about the race towards self-improving AI systems.

According to Coxon the systems could soon have superhuman strength and this poses a level of danger to everyone.

“The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade," he says.