AI – Friend or enemy?
The risks from AI should be treated as seriously as the climate crisis, according to one of the technology’s leading figures.
He was speaking ahead of a UK-hosted summit on the safety of AI due to be held on 1 and 2 November at Bletchley Park, the base for the code breakers in World War 2.
He was advocating the creation of a body similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC).
Among the risks cited were “aiding the creation of bioweapons and the existential threat posed by super-intelligent systems.”
His call has been echoed by others including Eric Schmidt, the former Google chief executive, and Mustafa Suleyman, the co-founder of DeepMind.
While there is no denying the immense opportunities in the use of AI.
There is no denying that AI has its uses, particularly for routine tasks, freeing up human resources for more creative activity.
But it is a powerful tool and thus susceptible to abuse without proper regulation and oversight.
What do you think?
