It's Time to Build AI Weapons
On our new Oppenheimers, and the safety in advanced tech
“The idea that AI weaponry is unacceptably dangerous has even seeped into the White House. Before last week's meeting between President Joe Biden and Communist Chinese dictator, Xi Jinping, the South China Morning Post — a Communist Chinese state paper — reported that the two leaders would sign a pledge limiting the use of AI systems in weaponry. This didn't eventuate, but even the presence of this rumor suggests the dominance of this view, and it was a point of discussion between the two leaders.
Among serious and unserious tech people, the risk of using AI in weapons is the one point almost everyone agrees upon. But they are gravely, dangerously wrong.”
Out now in The New York Sun: the case for developing more advanced AI weapons, and why they’ll make us safer. Read it now!
(also; Happy Thanksgiving to my American readers!)