Governments must not rush into policing AI
A summit in Britain will focus on “extreme” risks. But no one knows what they look like
Will artificial intelligence kill us all? Some technologists sincerely believe the answer is yes. In one nightmarish scenario, AI eventually outsmarts humanity and goes rogue, taking over computers and factories and filling the sky with killer drones. In another, large language models (LLMs) of the sort that power generative ais like ChatGPT give bad guys the know-how to create devastating cyberweapons and deadly new pathogens.
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This article appeared in the Leaders section of the print edition under the headline “Think, then act”
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