Snowden Says Attempts to Regulate AI May Stifle Its Potential
- ‘They will build a dam around us,’ Snowden tells tech event
- But AI is advancing too fast for it to be suppressed, he says
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Whistleblower Edward Snowden warned of governments and corporations trying to wrest control of artificial intelligence, potentially rendering the fast-developing technology less useful.
“We are witnessing the birth of a child with an entirely new fresh technology, and already we are seeing the werewolves beginning to circle,” Snowden told the SuperAI event in Singapore via a video call on Wednesday.