{"id":29391,"date":"2018-02-28T18:10:57","date_gmt":"2018-02-28T18:10:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/uncategorized\/2018\/02\/28\/former-google-exec-ai-movie-death-scenarios-one-to-two-decades-away\/"},"modified":"2026-08-20T12:30:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-20T12:30:17","slug":"former-google-exec-ai-movie-death-scenarios-one-to-two-decades-away","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/c4isrnet\/intel-geoint\/2018\/02\/28\/former-google-exec-ai-movie-death-scenarios-one-to-two-decades-away\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Google exec: AI movie death scenarios \u2018one to two decades away\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WASHINGTON \u2015 Rapid advances in artificial intelligence and military robotics have some concerned that the development of Terminator-like killer robots <\/a>will be humankind\u2019s downfall. But that doesn\u2019t seem to worry Eric Schmidt, the former executive chairman of Google parent company Alphabet, who addressed the impact of technology on democracy at the Feb. 16-18 Munich Security Conference<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEveryone immediately then wants to talk about all the movie-inspired death scenarios, and I can confidently predict to you that they are one to two decades away. So let\u2019s worry about them, but let\u2019s worry about them in a while,\u201c Schmidt said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For Schmidt, the benefits AI brings to health care and energy outweigh concerns of an apocalyptic robot takeover. When pressed a second time about the ability of creators to stay in control of technology designed to far surpass human intelligence, he again dismissed concerns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou\u2019ve been watching too many movies. Let me be clear: Humans will remain in charge of [AI] for the rest of time,\u201d he asserted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe other point that I want to remind everyone, these technologies [AI] have serious errors in them, and they should not be used with life-critical decisions. So I would not want to be in an airplane where the computer was making all the general intelligence decisions about flying it. The technology is just not reliable enough \u2015 there too many errors in its use. It is advisory, it makes you smarter and so forth, but I wouldn\u2019t put it in charge of command and control.\u201d
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Advances in AI overseas have caught the attention of U.S. officials.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For example, China is pushing full-steam ahead with its whole-of-nation AI program<\/a>, and the country plans to become the worlds leader in the field by 2030.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a national program. As I understand, what that means in China is that there will be hundreds of thousands of engineers produced and trained in this. There is no analogous United States<\/a> or European doctrine, and we need to have one<\/a>,\u201d Schmidt noted.<\/p>\n\n\n\t