Fortune November 8, 2023
It takes fewer than five minutes into an interview with Tom Siebel before the tech billionaire begins to raise the alarm about artificial intelligence’s many risks.
“The way war is being reinvented, all of these new technologies are highly dependent on AI,” says Siebel, CEO and founder of enterprise AI software company C3.ai, in response to just the second question from Fortune.
The company provides AI applications to oil and gas companies ranging from Shell to Baker Hughes, as well as the U.S. defense and intelligence communities. But C3.ai won’t do business with nations that aren’t allies of democratic states, including China and Russia, because Siebel says “they will misuse these technologies in ways that we can’t possibly imagine.”
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