Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, is the next big name in the tech world to express his concerns about the rapid development of artificial intelligence.

The list of tech industry names openly concerned about the rapid development of AI continues to grow. Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt is the latest addition.

Danger in the near future

Schmidt attended the Wall Street Journal’s CEO Council Summit in London. He even called AI “an existential risk that can kill or seriously harm many people.” That danger isn’t there for tomorrow, but he sees a near future where artificial intelligence will become even better at detecting vulnerabilities in software or even to discover new forms of biology. For Schmidt it is important that these systems are not misused by people with bad intentions.

As for the fear of AI automating as a replacement for many human jobs, he shares much the same view; Those thoughts are still fiction, he says, but that can’t be much longer.

No answers

He himself does not have a ready-made solution for the possible threat and Schmidt assumes that there will be no concrete steps for AI in the USA. Despite the national AI safety committee he was a member of. In 2021, a report was released stating that the United States was unprepared for the impact of artificial intelligence.

Overall, we’ve recently seen the moves of the European Union and the focus on AI during the recent G7 summit, so the world is starting to prepare for the development and impact of artificial intelligence.