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The Future of War Is Here

Plain English with Derek Thompson

CHAPTER

The Wildness of Artificial Intelligence

The title of your article is never give artificial intelligence the nuclear codes. I found that just shocking that people with that kind of life experience and career experience and presumably sobriety would be willing to give algorithms kind of control as to whether the United States would enter into a nuclear exchange. So that in itself is like, oh, wow, that's pretty wild that people are willing to do that. Even more chilling is that you had a one of the regular answers was that people said, okay, automate it. Have an AI make the decision as to whether to launch a retaliatory nuclear strike.

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