“When killer robots come to America they will be wrapped in fur, carrying a ball”.
A rampaging robot art dog; a foray into the world of AI by Nobel Prize winning laureate, Kazuo Ishiguro; and a 750-page report by the National Security Commission on Artificial Intelligence - is this the week that the implications of the dawning of the Age of Artificial Intelligence finally landed with the public?
While the NSCAI’s lengthy report is unlikely to attract as many reader’s as Ishiguro’s new novel, or capture the public’s attention in quite the same manner as Spot’s Rampage – it is gripping reading nonetheless. The report with its central thesis that China will lead the world in AI by the end of the decade casts a shadow every bit as grim as the Nobel Prize winner’s dystopian vision.
As it warns, we are only just beginning to “grapple with just how profoundly the AI revolution will impact our economy, national security, and welfare”.
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