A month or so out from Christopher Nolan’s much-anticipated biopic Oppenheimer, the Artificial Intelligence (AI) community is having its own Oppenheimer moment. Like the director of the Manhattan Project and Los Alamos Laboratory, who famously came to regret his part in the development of the atomic bomb, the Big Tech Titans are falling over each other to declare themselves ‘the destroyer of worlds’. Open letters and statements, high-profile resignations, and appearances before the US Senate are just a few manifestations of this collective show of soul-searching. The tech bros have unleashed their creations on the world, and now they are demanding to be put on the leash. [More here.]
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