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The Most Interesting Thing in AI
How AI Could Upend Global Politics - Ian Bremmer with Nicholas Thompson
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AI may have leveled the playing field in coding and app development, but it’s also put potentially dangerous tools in reach of nefarious actors. Now, empowered by AI, state-backed intelligence agencies and non-state actors alike can access tools that enable everything from mass surveillance to cyberattacks to bioweapon development. This dynamic could lead to a catastrophe, warns Eurasia Group’s Ian Bremmer. In conversation with Nicholas Thompson, CEO of The Atlantic, Bremmer describes the risks of open-source AI, the opportunities for international collaboration (including an “AI stability board”), and how to increase investment in safety and alignment. Will AI cause socially-destabilizing…