Eric Schmidt: AI Poses Existential Threat To People

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Eric Schmidt, the creator of Google, surveillance capitalism and member of the Trilateral Commission that started modern globalization, aka Technocracy, says government needs to protect us from AI being “misused by evil people”. In other words, the Technocrats who created AI will be the ones in charge of regulating it. Evil handed over to evil. ⁃ TN Editor

Artificial intelligence could pose “existential risks” and governments need to know how to make sure the technology is not “misused by evil people,” former Google CEO Eric Schmidt warned on Wednesday.

The future of AI has been thrust into the center of conversations among technologists and policymakers grappling with what the technology looks like going forward and how it should be regulated.

ChatGPT, the chatbot that went viral last year, has arguably sparked more awareness of artificial intelligence as major firms around the world look to launch rival products and talk up their AI capabilities.

Speaking at the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London, Schmidt said his concern is that AI is an “existential risk.”

“And existential risk is defined as many, many, many, many people harmed or killed,” Schmidt said.

“There are scenarios not today, but reasonably soon, where these systems will be able to find zero-day exploits in cyber issues, or discover new kinds of biology. Now, this is fiction today, but its reasoning is likely to be true. And when that happens, we want to be ready to know how to make sure these things are not misused by evil people.”

Zero-day exploits are security vulnerabilities found by hackers in software and systems.

Schmidt, who was CEO of Google from 2001 to 2011, did not have a clear view on how AI should be regulated but said that it is a “broader question for society.” However, he said there is unlikely to be a new regulatory agency set up in the U.S. dedicated to regulating AI.

Schmidt is not the first major technology figure to warn about the risks of AI.

Sam Altman, the CEO of Open AI which developed ChatGPT, admitted in March that he is a “little bit scared” of artificial intelligence. He said he worries about authoritarian governments developing the technology,

Tesla CEO Elon Musk said in the past he thinks AI represents one of the “biggest risks” to civilization.

Even current Google and Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai, who recently oversaw the company’s launch of its own chatbot called Bard AIsaid the technology will “impact every product across every company,” adding society needs to prepare for the changes.

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Patrick Wood
Patrick Wood is a leading and critical expert on Sustainable Development, Green Economy, Agenda 21, 2030 Agenda and historic Technocracy. He is the author of Technocracy Rising: The Trojan Horse of Global Transformation (2015) and co-author of Trilaterals Over Washington, Volumes I and II (1978-1980) with the late Antony C. Sutton.
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Robert Olin

Maybe the ETs that spliced in the smart gene 50,000 years ago are taking bets.

DawnieR

In UPSIDE DOWN CLOWN WORLD…….the OPPOSITE is TRUE. Therefore, no it does NOT ‘pose an existential threat to people’!! As Clif High points out, so-called ‘AI’ has BEEN AROUND FOR QUITE SOME TIME now. YOU are just NOW hearing about it. Just a reminder…….that there is NO SUCH THING as ‘ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE’. Intelligence can ONLY COME FROM the NATURAL WORLD. ‘Artificial Intelligence’ is just like saying, ‘DRY WATER’. NEITHER exists, and NEVER WILL!! So-called ‘AI’ is A MACHINE; a MACHINE that has BEEN PROGRAMMED by a ‘human’. Would one think that their laptop/desktop is INTELLIGENT?? NO!…..that is ABSURD! So, what… Read more »