The AI Arms Race Has Begun: Why We Need A NATO For Artificial Intelligence

Like with the atomic bomb, synthetic intelligence will divide the world into the haves and the have-nots, French columnist Édouard Tétreau writes. To win the AI arms race, France and its allies want a brand new transatlantic partnership.

The synthetic intelligence device ChatGPT and its future rivals have began an epistemological and anthropological revolution. This super-powerful device, a “metalanguage” that feeds on all of the human information accessible on-line, will disrupt each a part of our lives.

We will suppose and make choices otherwise with ChatGPT. We will carry out higher at work and be higher educated, higher fed and higher supervised, collectively and individually. Whether in manufacturing, mental manufacturing or important providers like medication — nothing will escape the facility of ChatGPT and synthetic intelligence.

Last month, The Wall Street Journal printed a prolonged dialogue of ChatGPT signed by tutorial Daniel Huttenlocher, former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger and Eric Schmidt, former boss of Google.

The authors ask the appropriate, philosophical and important query: that of belief. ChatGPT’s solutions have the looks of mental and moral authority (drawing on all of the world’s on-line information), however the reply is produced in a black field of machine-to-machine communications, which nobody can enter.

The solutions are due to this fact extra more likely to seem not as scientific, rational truth, however as spiritual fact. In ChatGPT we belief. Like a divinity that may take form.

I do not understand how an atomic bomb works, however I perceive its energy sufficient to know that I would like my nation to have one, and never my neighbor. But ChatGPT is the Gutenberg printing press + the atomic bomb. A profound redistribution of world energy will happen with ChatGPT and AI.

As with the atomic bomb, there can be a membership of countries with the means to take advantage of AI — those that will design the way forward for the world, after which those that will obey.

This arms race will be summed up in three figures: China has introduced a purpose of $150 billion in AI investments by 2030, aiming to realize world management. Given the nation’s technique of shock developments within the fields of armament (e.g. balloons), this goal has probably already been reached and surpassed. […]

— Read the full article by Edouard Tétreau for French daily Les Echos, translated into English by Worldcrunch.

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