MIT Economist Daron Acemoglu Takes on Big Tech: "Our Future Will Be Very Dystopian"

DER SPIEGEL: This is not a problem that is exclusive to today's tech industry. Acemoglu: The tech industry combines it with our current obsession with autonomous machine intelligence, meaning that what we should aspire for is to have machines that are as human-like as possible. This vision is rooted in the work and thoughts of Alan Turing, the brilliant British mathematician who first articulated the Turing Test. That's the benchmark that all AI engineers want to pass. DER SPIEGEL: The test is, roughly speaking, about whether a computer succeeds in deceiving a human to think that it is speaking with another person and not a computer.