Eric Schmidt Suggests Countries Could Engage in Mutual Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM)

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt and Scale AI founder Alexandr Wang are co-authors on a new paper called “Superintelligence Strategy” that warns against the U.S. government creating a Manhattan Project for so-called Artificial General Intelligence (AGI) because it could quickly get out of control around the world. The gist of the argument is that the creation of such a program would lead to retaliation or sabotage by adversaries as countries…