How humans will use AI is risky: Mo Gawdat

AlArabiya English

Any kind of intelligence is not “inherently evil;” the real risk is “how humans will use AI,” Mo Gawdat, Egyptian Author and Entrepreneur tells Riz Khan.  #AI #MoGawdat

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00:00Now, on social media, you've commented that the biggest threat to humanity is humanity itself.

00:05For sure.

00:06And especially in the age of AI and machines, what's your greatest fear when it comes to AI?

00:11Look, there is nothing inherently good or evil about intelligence.

00:16I think most people forget that.

00:18And all of the conversation around the existential risk of AI,

00:21even though there is a tiny bit of a possibility for that,

00:25the truth is that the imminent risk is the risk of how humans will use AI.

00:32So think about it this way.

00:34Intelligence has no polarity.

00:36You apply it to good, and we can create a utopia that saves humanity

00:40and solves every problem we've ever faced.

00:43Apply it with greed and fear and hunger for power,

00:48and we will get the ultimate wars and the ultimate inequality.

00:52And we will destroy humanity's path as we've known it so far.

00:56And I think the difference between them has nothing to do with AI.

00:59Don't ever blame AI.

01:01Blame those who are now in a rat race to use AI to get an advantage over the other guy.

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