Just Because We Can Doesn’t Mean We Should

The world is full of evil people. What happens when one of them deliberately misuses a zero-day exploit revealed to them by AI—especially if the exploit is within a nuclear warhead launch system?

Zero-day exploits are fatal to the system being attacked. Such exploits, in the hands of bad actors, can be used to attack your local water supply system, the electric grid, or any technology used to protect our infrastructure, warning systems, and humankind.

This is why Eric Schmidt, Google’s former CEO is talking about the existential risks posed by AI, defining the risk as “many, many, many, many people harmed or killed”. The question for all of us is, just because we have a new technology we like, should it be used at all if safeguards are not first securely in place to protect us?

Read all about Schmidt’s concerns and those of other leading tech CEO’s in Forbes.