AI could transform healthcare, the workplace, filmmaking and education — but its power could also be destructive in the wrong hands.
Google’s former CEO Eric Schmidt elaborated on the risks of AI in a Monday episode of The Prof G Pod podcast with NYU professor, entrepreneur and author Scott Galloway. Though Schmidt highlighted that AI improves productivity for nearly everyone, he also acknowledged that the technology could be used to hurt human beings in the future.
“The most obvious one is their use in biology,” Schmidt stated. “Can these systems, at some point in the future, generate biological pathogens that could harm many, many, many, many humans?”
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