He's a powerful voice in the field.
But, like others in the field — take OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Silicon Valley'sManyika was one of the many AI insiders who, back in May, signed a
declaring that "mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.", the tech and society chief conceded that as a result of AI, "bad things could happen" — a convenient and ultimately meaningless position on the future of AI that leaves pretty much any outcome still on the table.Manyika's tightrope walking does feel notable.
"While there is natural tension" between boldness and responsibility, Manyika wrote, "we believe it's possible — and in fact critical — to embrace that tension productively."all that much. "What does it mean honestly?" Rebecca Johnson, an AI ethics researcher at the University of Sydney who recently worked as a visiting researcher at Google, told theNo AI leader wants to be wrong about the future of AI — but forging ahead while having a muddy-at-best stance on the risks of AI isn't exactly confidence-inducing.
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