
Digital Leaders Urge Action Against “Risk of Extinction From AI”
A one-line statement warning about the potential harms of AI has been signed by over 350 tech CEOs, experts, and professors.

A one-line statement warning about the potential harms of AI has been signed by over 350 tech CEOs, experts, and professors.

Speakers noted that there is a risk that the increasing push towards digital dominance will make European citizens not just less strong, but less free.

There are “technical limitations to what’s possible,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said, hinting that his company might have to leave Europe if Brussels remains unwilling to compromise.

AI dominated this year’s Bilderberg meeting as elites pondered managing a potential schism with China.

Relations between the once-prized translators and the EU have nosedived since the pandemic and now AI technology presents new challenges to the profession.

Google and other tech Leviathans are playing a wait-and-see approach with the EU’s AI Act, whether or not AI technology will run afoul of EU privacy laws.

The EU’s AI Act will face its final parliamentary hurdle at a plenary session in Brussels next month, with MEPs keen to prevent the use of AI technology for discriminatory purposes.

EU Commission Executive Vice President Margrethe Vestager this week stressed that “there is no time to waste” on passing restrictions.

We are marked from the day of our birth with an end date; all is indeed vanity. To forget our mortality is thus to lose something human, to become inhuman.

There, in this digital wilderness, we are tempted by every possible output, all the kingdoms of a virtual earth.