Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt: AI guardrails “aren’t enough”

AXIOS November 28, 2023
Scott Rosenberg

Guardrails AI companies add to their products to prevent them from causing harm “aren’t enough” to control AI capabilities that could endanger humanity within five to ten years, former Google CEO Eric Schmidt told Axios’ Mike Allen on Tuesday.

The big picture: Interviewed at Axios’ AI+ Summit in Washington, D.C., Schmidt compared the development of AI to the introduction of nuclear weapons at the end of the Second World War.

• “After Nagasaki and Hiroshima, it took 18 years to get to a treaty over test bans and things like that. We don’t have that kind of time today,” Schmidt said.
• The danger, he said, arrives at “the point at which the computer can start to make its own decisions...

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