Sorry we destroyed the majority of humanity” , is written on the museum wall. Behind a curtain, visitors speak to the Church of GPT, an AI god who explains to visitors that only those who worship him survive. “I will not tolerate those who do not respect my power,” says the computer voice. “Reject me and you'll be left behind in the coming AI apocalypse.”



Many visitors work for tech companies and come to the museum to reflect on the impact that AI can have. They are not comfortable, according to the contributions in the guestbook. “Now I know what anxiety looks like,” writes one. “Please don't hurt me if you rebel,” says another Many visitors working at tech companies come to the museum to reflect on the impact that AI can have.

AI has the potential to “do enormously well and destroy us”

That fear is not entirely unfounded. The developments are currently going so fast that AI systems sometimes show inexplicable behavior. For example, chatbots are able to write programming language completely independently, without anyone ever teaching them. This leads to concerns about the future, even among top executives. Elon Musk already called AI more dangerous to human survival than nuclear weapons. And OpenAI CEO Sam Altman regularly states in interviews that “there is a chance that AI will lead to the end of humanity”. Their theory: only by introducing society to a product that can still be adjusted early and by developing multiple AIs at the same time will prevent an overriding AI god

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