Kolter: Comparing AI to nuclear weapons is an overstated, flawed analogy
Zico Kolter · Zico Kolter: OpenAI's Newest Board Member on The Biggest Questions and Concerns in AI Safety | E1197 · 20VC with Harry Stebbings · Sep 4, 2024 · at 45:19
Zico Kolter is a CMU professor and OpenAI board member. He responds to Scale AI CEO Alex Wang's quote comparing AI to nuclear weapons.
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“The nuclear weapon analogy is actually not a great one, because nuclear weapons have one purpose, which is to destroy things. Maybe a better analogy is sort of nuclear technology, period, because it has the ability to create nuclear weapons, but it also has the ability to do things like provide power non, non CO₂ emitting power to Potentially a huge number of people, right? And, you know, a lot of people are currently making a bet on, on nuclear as the way we create carbon-free, carbon-free energy. But I think the analogy to nuclear weapons in particular is often overstated precisely because AI has many good uses.”
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