Is Artificial Intelligence Going Down the Path of Nuclear Weapons?

This story is syndicated from the Substack newsletter Big Technology; subscribe for free here. In front of a packed house last week at Amsterdam's World Summit AI last week, I asked senior researchers at Meta, Google, IBM, and The University of Sussex to speak up if they did not want AI to mirror human intelligence. After a few silent moments, no hands went up. The response reflected the AI industry's ambition to build human-level cognition, even if it might lose control of it. AI is not sentient now--and won't be for some time, if ever--but a determined AI industry is already releasing programs that can chat, see, and draw like humans as it tries to get there.