SEATTLE – Artificial Intelligence is taking all our jobs and it seems like new uses for the emerging tech are found every day, but an ominous threat has been issued by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.
He said he was “excited” and “inspired” by advancements in artificial intelligence which if used for “good” could boost education, healthcare, business and lifestyles while at the same time reducing global inequality and poverty.
But the multi-billionaire tech aficionado believes that AI could decide that “humans are a threat” and turn on us, before starting to “run out of control” with their super intelligence, as the Daily Star reports. Such a scenario is the plot for a 1980s movie called The Terminator starring Arnold Schwartzenagger.
Should AI fall into the wrong hands they could be manipulated by real-life James Bond-style villains to promote their twisted goals, which doesn’t sound so good after all.
Bill, 67, is the latest big name to warn of the dangers of AI after terminator director James Cameron yesterday said robots may already be controlling us.
Bill said: “Like most inventions, artificial intelligence can be used for good purposes or malign ones.
“Governments need to work with the private sector on ways to limit the risks.
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