Was Henry Kissinger an AI “doomer”?
A posthumous postscript on a hair-raising topic
Henry Kissinger kept learning right to the end of his life. In the half-decade before he died in 2023, aged 100, he turned himself into an expert in artificial intelligence (AI), adding to the fields of history, philosophy, cold-war diplomacy and nuclear deterrence that made him a master of 20th-century realpolitik.
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