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 race to have the most powerful AI capabilities on the battlefield. Instead, the U.S. should focus on developing methods like cyberattacks that could disable threatening AI projects. Schmidt and Wang are big boosters of AI’s potential to advance society through applications like drug development and workplace efficiency. Governments, meanwhile, see it as the next frontier in defense, and the two industry leaders are essentially concerned that countries are going to end up in a race to create weapons with increasingly dangerous potential. Similar to h ... Read full article.