MS NOW’s Ari Melber reports on tech innovator and Microsoft founder Bill Gates issuing an extensive warning about the current AI boom. (The Beat's YouTube: https://ms.now/ari)
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published a sweeping 6,000-word warning that artificial intelligence is advancing at an "uncontrolled" rate, accusing fellow tech executives of suppressing their own fears to protect fundraising. Gates, 70, laid out the case in an essay titled The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Are Critical, released Wednesday. He […] The post Bill Gates says AI could enable bioterrorism and erase millions of jobs — while tech executives hide the risks appeared first on American Almanac .
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates published a sweeping 6,000-word warning that artificial intelligence is advancing at an "uncontrolled" rate, accusing fellow tech executives of suppressing their own fears to protect fundraising. Gates, 70, laid out the case in an essay titled The Turbulent AI Era Is Here. The Choices We Make Are Critical, released Wednesday. He paired it with comments to The New York Times in which he described private conversations among industry leaders who understand how powerful AI has become, and how deliberately they avoid saying so in public. The picture Gates paints is blunt: AI will make it easier to design deadly diseases, strip entire professions of work within a decade, hand authoritarian governments…Open
In an hourlong interview, he said his industry was downplaying the risks, which he believes include mass unemployment and bioterrorism.
Nick Bostrom, philosopher and author of the New York Times bestseller “Superintelligence”, warns that the AI models built to design new drugs carry the same capability to help design new pathogens and explains why safeguards can be stripped out.
Some stories make headlines. Others get ignored. On "Unreported," Meagan Medick takes a deeper look at the unexplained through the eyes and experiences of you, the viewers. You send the mystery — we investigate. This week, Meagan asks whether we've been asking the wrong question about simulation theory and whether AI itself is quietly taking control of the conversation, joined by Nick Bostrom, philosopher and author of the New York Times bestseller “Superintelligence,” who has spent decades studying how artificial intelligence could reshape humanity. They discuss whether AI could uplift bioterrorism and help design new pathogens, what happens to jobs and the global economy once AI and robotics take over human labor, if "digital…
Scientists shared transcripts with The Times in which chatbots described how to assemble deadly pathogens and unleash them in public spaces.