AI may begin war, increase nuclear arsenal, warns ex-Google engineer Blake Lemoine
AI pioneer Blake Lemoine has warned that Artificial Intelligence may start a war and it could be used in assassination. He is the software engineer who was sacked by the company after he claimed that Google's LaMDA system was capable of having feelings. Google rejected this and fired the software engineer. He has expressed apprehension that the tools other AI makers are creating may be used wrongfully in warfare.
Talking to 'The Washington Times', he said, «Using the AI to solve political problems by sending a bullet into the opposition will become seductive, especially if it’s accurate.» He also said, «If you can kill one revolutionary thought leader and prevent a civil war while your hands are clean, you prevented a war. But that leads to ‘Minority Report’ and we don’t want to live in that world.»
AI may increase the nuclear threat
Lemoine compared the race for AI tools to nuclear weapons. He argues that Artificial Intelligence enables machines to perform tasks through advanced calculations and statistical analysis that were previously only possible for humans.
He said the apparent shortage of well-protected nuclear weapons and the scarce resources of plutonium and uranium are limitations that do not exist for open-source software models because these do not depend on rare natural resources.
MIMIO.ai
Blake Lemoine is not working on a new project, called MIMIO.ai. He oversees the technology and AI for the company and is building a 'personality engine' that allows people to create digital personas.
The 'personality engine' is intended to function not as a digital twin of a person, but as a digital extension of a person, capable of doing things on their behalf.
