Rogue states could use AI to do ‘real harm’, warns ex-Google CEO
Eric Schmidt fears terrorist groups or countries such as North Korea, Iran or Russia may use AI to develop weapons
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”.
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