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If the best defence against AI is more AI, this could be tech’s Oppenheimer moment | An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security
An unsettling new book advocates a closer relationship between Silicon Valley and the US government to harness artificial intelligence in the name of national security
This created an opening that Karp and his colleagues astutely exploited to build a company which is simultaneously appears to be booming (current market capitalisation: $200bn), while also being regarded by critics of the industry as the spawn of the devil. The second theme is a chronicle of what the authors call “The Hollowing Out of the American Mind”: the abandonment of belief, the agnosticism of technology, the “assumption that the correctness of one’s views from a moral or ethical perspective precludes the need to engage with the more distasteful and fundamental question of relative power with respect to a geopolitical opponent, and specifically which party has a superior ability to inflict harm on the other. For some critics, the reconceptualisation of AI as technology for national security will seem like an unmitigated disaster In the summer of 1939, Albert Einstein and Leo Szilard to President Roosevelt, urging him to explore the construction of an atomic bomb – and quickly.
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