Rogue states could use AI to do 'real harm', warns ex-Google CEO

Google's former chief executive has warned that artificial intelligence could be used by rogue states such as North Korea, Iran and Russia to "harm innocent people". Eric Schmidt, who held senior posts at Google from 2001 to 2017, told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that those countries and terrorists could adopt and misuse the technology to develop weapons to create "a bad biological attack from some evil person". The tech billionaire said: "The real fears that I have are not the ones that most people talk about AI – I talk about extreme risk. "Think about North Korea, or Iran, or even Russia, who have some evil goal. This technology is fast enough for them to adopt that they could misuse it and do real harm."