But some experts beg to differ.
Smarter Than Who?
Gawdat joins a long line of doomsayers who warn of an impending AI apocalypse.
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Elon Musk, for example, claims that AI might one day conquer humanity.
“Robots will be able to do everything better than us,” Musk saidduring a speech.
“And I suddenly realized this is really scary,” Gawdat said.
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“It completely froze me.”
“It would take off on its own and re-design itself at an ever-increasing rate.
Humans, who are limited by slow biological evolution, couldn’t compete and would be superseded.”
Artificial intelligence isn’t close to being able to match human intelligence, O’Brien said.
AI already has been used to seed discrimination and spread hatred through deepfake videos, he noted.
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How AI affects humans depends on how we use it, O’Brien said.
