By Austin Caldwell
Publication Date: 2026-10-11 14:51:00
In a video shared by the X account Thea Vales (@codesthea), an interview is shown with the former CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt, between 2010 and 2011, where he warns of the dangers of AI (artificial intelligence) in the coming years.
He stated that in about five years AI could act independently of humans: “Chain-of-thought reasoning for 1,000-step solutions and millions of agents working together”.
Even, he warned of the possibility that a language could be created that only the different AIs understand: “Over time, they will develop their own language… and we will not understand what they are doing”. That said, he gave the key to solving this: “Unplug it”.
“But at some point, these systems will be powerful enough that you can take the agents and they will start working together You know what we should do? Pull the plug,” he concluded.
He is not the only tech magnate warning of this possibility
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