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Can we control AI before it controls us?
Ian Bremmer Explains: Can We Control AI Before It Controls Us? | GZERO World
January 21, 2022
COVID has accelerated our embrace of the digital world. The thing is, we don't always know who’s running it.
Instead of governments, Ian Bremmer says, so far a handful of Big Tech companies are writing the rules of digital space — through computer algorithms powered by artificial intelligence.
The problem is that tech companies have set something in motion they don't fully understand, nor control.
But China does. Beijing is using AI do some pretty bad stuff, such as surveillance of Uyghurs in Xinjiang (and also some fun stuff, like publicly shaming jaywalkers).
Will we learn to control AI before AI controls us? Find out on GZERO World.
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