Video: Fareed looks at the brave and frightening world of AI
CNN's Fareed Zakaria explores the brave and frightening world of Artificial Intelligence in his special, highlighting its promise as well as its potential perils.
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Posted 9/3/2023, 4:41:36 PM
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Elon Musk is deeply concerned about the dangers of artificial intelligence and is taking steps to ensure its safety, including founding OpenAI and starting his own AI company, xAI.
Artificial intelligence poses a more imminent threat to humanity's survival than climate crisis, pandemics, or nuclear war, as discussed by philosopher Nick Bostrom and author David Runciman, who argue that challenges posed by AI can be negotiated by drawing on lessons learned from navigating state and corporate power throughout history.
Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt discusses the dangers and potential of AI and emphasizes the need to utilize artificial intelligence without causing harm to humanity.
Artificial Intelligence poses real threats due to its newness and rawness, such as ethical challenges, regulatory and legal challenges, bias and fairness issues, lack of transparency, privacy concerns, safety and security risks, energy consumption, data privacy and ownership, job loss or displacement, explainability problems, and managing hype and expectations.
The United Nations is urging the international community to confront the potential risks and benefits of Artificial Intelligence, which has the power to transform the world.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Tesla CEO Elon Musk discussed artificial intelligence (AI) and its potential threats during a live talk on the X platform, with Musk calling AI "potentially the greatest civilizational threat" and expressing concern over who would be in charge, while Netanyahu highlighted the need to prevent the amplification of hatred and mentioned the potential end of scarcity and democracy due to AI. The two also discussed antisemitism and the role of AI in fighting hatred.
Artificial intelligence (AI) has become the new focus of concern for tech-ethicists, surpassing social media and smartphones, with exaggerated claims of AI's potential to cause the extinction of the human race. These fear-mongering tactics and populist misinformation have garnered attention and book deals for some, but are lacking in nuance and overlook the potential benefits of AI.