Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt Compare Artificial Intelligence To Nuclear Weapons

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VICE: Eric Schmidt Thinks AI Is as Powerful as Nukes 

An AI deterrence regime would necessitate an AI Hiroshima. 

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt compared AI to nuclear weapons and called for a deterrence regime similar to the mutually-assured destruction that keeps the world’s most powerful countries from destroying each other. 

Schmidt talked about the dangers of AI at the Aspen Security Forum at a panel on national security and artificial intelligence on July 22. While fielding a question about the value of morality in tech, Schmidt explained that he, himself, had been naive about the power of information in the early days of Google. He then called for tech to be better in line with the ethics and morals of the people it serves and made a bizarre comparison between AI and nuclear weapons.  

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Update: US must seek international cyberspace norms with China, Russia: experts (FOX News).  

WNU Editor: I like to believe that we are still years (if not decades) away from developing systems that exhibit AI. So that is why it is disturbing to hear the experts tell us that this is going to happen sooner than what we expect.