Lawmakers: Don't Gauge Artificial Intelligence By What You See In The Movies
Elon Musk and others have warned that AI poses a risk to civilization. Two House members say they have doubts about those warnings, but they say it's time for the government to pay more attention.
by Yu-Ning Aileen Chuang
Oct 05, 2017
3 minutes
Artificial intelligence is the subject of great hopes, dire warnings, and now — a congressional caucus.
Alarms about AI have been raised in apocalyptic movies and by some of the most pioneering minds in science and technology. Elon Musk, the Tesla and SpaceX CEO, said in July that AI is a "fundamental existential risk for human civilization." Bill Gates, Stephen Hawking and others have also raised concerns about AI.
Countering the dire warnings, the bipartisan AI Caucus, founded , is aiming
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