Former Google CEO is concerned about artificial intelligence by terrorists or “rogue states” “to harm innocents.”
“The real concerns that I have no one who talks about artificial intelligence – I am talking about extreme risks,” Eric Schmidt told the BBC.
“North Korea, Iran, or even Russia” can adopt and misuse technology to create biological weapons.
He called for governmental supervision of private technology companies that develop artificial intelligence models, but he warned against the African organization that may suffocate innovation.
Mr. Schmidt agreed with us Export controls On strong micro -chips that operate the most advanced artificial intelligence systems.
Before leaving his position, former US President Joe Biden restricted the export of small chips to all countries except for 18 countries, in order to slow the progress of opponents in artificial intelligence research.
It is still possible to reverse the decision by Donald Trump.
“Think of North Korea, Iran, or even Russia, who have some evil goals,” said Mr. Schmidt.
“This technology is fast enough for them to adopt them, they can misuse it and cause real harm,” he said to the foreground today, Amoul Rajan.
In the wrong hands, the artificial intelligence systems added, which could be used to develop weapons to create a “bad biological attack from an evil person.”
“I am always concerned about the scenario of” Osama bin Laden “, as you have a truly evil person who takes over some aspects of our modern lives and uses it to harm innocents.”
Bin Laden organized the September 11 attacks in 2001, when al -Qaeda terrorists took control of aircraft to kill thousands of people on American soil.
Mr. Schmidt proposed a balance between government supervision of developing artificial intelligence and excessive organization of the sector.
“The truth is that artificial and future intelligence will be largely built by private companies,” Schmidt said.
“It is really important for governments to understand what we do and watch.”
He added: “We do not discuss that we must be able to do these things without supervision. We believe that it should be organized.”
He was speaking from Paris, where the AI Action Summit with the United States and the United Kingdom ended He refused to sign the agreement.
US Vice President JD Vance said that the regulations “will kill a manufacturing industry exactly as they start.”
Mr. Schmidt said that the result of many organization in Europe is that the revolution of artificial intelligence, which is the most important revolution in my opinion since electricity, will not be invented in Europe. “
He also said that large technology companies “did not understand 15 years ago” the possibility that I had artificial intelligence, but now.
“My experience with technology leaders is that they have an understanding of the influence that they spoke, but they may issue a different judgment from the government,” he said.
Mr. Schmidt was the president of Google when the company bought Android, the company that now makes the operating system of the mobile phone the most used in the world.
It now supports initiatives to maintain phones outside schools.
“I am one of the people who did not understand, and I will take responsibility for the fact that the world does not work completely in the way we believe in technology,” he said.
“The situation with children is especially annoying to me.”
He said: “I think smartphones that have a child can be safe, they just need supervision … We can all agree that children should be protected from the world’s badness online.”
On social media – where he supported proposals for a ban on children under the age of 16 – and added: “Why do we manage such a big and unlimited experience on the most important people in the world, which is the next generation?”
Activists to reduce the use of a smartphone for children The controversy is addicted And “attracting children away from the indispensable activities for healthy development.”
Australian Parliament Law passed To prohibit the use of social media for less than 16 years in 2024, when Prime Minister Anthony Albaniz said it was important to protect children from “damage”.
A recent study published in the medical magazine The Lancet suggested that the prohibition of a mobile phone in schools did not improve the behavior of students or its grades.
But he found that spending longer on smartphones and social media in general is linked to worse results for all of these measures.
