You can’t recall AI like a defective drug

At a recent AI summit in New Delhi, Sam Altman warned that early versions of superintelligence could arrive by 2028, that AI could be weaponized to create novel pathogens, and that democratic societies need to act before they are overtaken by the technology they have built. These concerns are widely shared across the industry. Geoffrey Hinton, the Nobel laureate known as “the godfather of AI,” has warned that creating digital beings more intelligent than ourselves poses a genuine existential threat.