The former chief business officer of Google X has issued a dire warning about the dangers of AI in a podcast interview.
Artificial intelligence (AI) expert and former chief business officer of Google X, Mo Gavdat, has warned people who don’t already have children to stop if AI continues to grow rapidly.
“The risks are so bad, in fact, that when considering all the other threats to humanity, you should hold off on having children if you’re not a parent yet,” he told podcast host Steven Bartlett on the Diary of a CEO podcast. Told on.
This is not the first time that tech industry executives have issued such warnings.
Earlier this year, prominent figures including Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak signed an open letter asking developers to hold off on further innovation for six months, so that the industry and the end- Users have time to process the latest progress.
The paper, published on the website for The Future of Life Institute, claims that AI labs are “locked in an out-of-control race to develop and deploy more powerful digital brains that no one – not even their creators – understand, predict, or reliably control”.
The Center for AI Safety also released a statement saying: “Reducing the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-level risks such as pandemics and nuclear war”.
Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, creator of the wildly popular chatbot ChatGPT, has warning The “existential risk” calls for a United Nations-style watchdog to regulate the technology.
‘The biggest challenge humanity has ever faced’
Speaking on the matter, Gavdat compared the reality of our future to popular dystopian movies like Blade Runner.
“There has never been such a perfect storm in the history of mankind,” Gavdat said.
“Economic, geopolitical, global warming, climate change, the whole idea of AI, it’s a perfect storm, the depth of the uncertainty…it’s never been more acute. If you really love your kids Do you really want to expose them to everyone?”
The interview comes after Bartlett appointed Gawdat as chief AI officer at its marketing agency, Flight Story.
“I have spent my career fascinated by the role of technology, and now the greatest challenge facing humanity is before us,” Gawdat said.
“Artificial Intelligence is the pinnacle of technological progress and it is my view that it will be unprecedented in defining the way we shape the world”.
“The sophistication of digital intelligence is such that it has become autonomous and something that needs to be appealed to rather than controlled,” he said.
“It’s important how we do it, or we risk being left behind”.
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