Warren Buffett compared artificial intelligence to the creation of the atom bomb, becoming the latest high-profile business figure to express alarm about the rapid advancement of the technology., Buffett was both skeptical of AI's capacity to replace humans and cognizant of how much the technology can already do.
Though stating that the tech currently had limits, like not being able to tell convincing jokes, he said:"It can do all kinds of things. And when something can do all kinds of things, I get a little bit worried." "We did invent for very, very good reason, the atom bomb. And, World War Two, it was enormously important that we did so. But is it good for the next 200 years of the world that the ability to do so has been unleashed?"which led to the creation of the atomic bomb"With AI, it can change everything in the world, except how men think and behave, and that's a big step to take," Buffett concluded.
Buffett has long been a vocal opponent of nuclear weapons, reinforcing the weight of its comparison with AI. He has made several commentsIn an April interview with CNBC's Squawk Box, the"Sage of Omaha"from Google last week. Geoffrey Hinton told the New York Times about his worried that it was too late to reign in the technology's excesses.