ANALYSIS Former Google chief Eric Schmidt says the US should refrain from pursuing a latter-day “Manhattan Project” to gain AI supremacy, as this will provoke preemptive cyber responses from rivals such as China that could lead to escalation.
China would not sit idle waiting to be dictated to by the US once it achieves superintelligence, the authors warn. This assumes that rivals would accept a lasting imbalance of power rather than act to prevent it, thereby undermining the very…
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