Eric Schmidt and Henry Kissinger: “It is simply a mad race for some catastrophe.”
Henry Kissinger, who many people consider to be little more than a war criminal that was never prosecuted, recently co-wrote an op-ed with former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, in which he warned against the potential downsides of our current AI craze. Published in The Wall Street Journal, the duo wrote that AI, if improperly handled, could cause major problems for everybody. During a recent panel event in Washington D.C. Kissinger similarly said that if AI was not properly controlled “it is simply a mad race for some catastrophe.” Kissinger and Schmidt also recently wrote a book together on the subject of AI in which they claimed it could lead to the “death of the Enlightenment” and rational human knowledge. Fun! If even good ol’ power-hungry Henry is worried about this, maybe we should be too.
