AI Means You Shouldn’t Have Kids? Some Think So
In the mood for another AI doom and gloom prediction? A former Google X employee has one for you.
Mo Gawdat, the ex-chief business officer at Google X, has a strong opinion.
Speaking to Steven Bartlett on the Diary of a CEO podcast, Gawdat issued a doom-and-gloom warning about the dangers of AI. He said that couples willing to have children should refrain from doing that as the risks are “so bad.”
"The risks are so bad, in fact, that when considering all the other threats to humanity, you should hold off from having kids if you are yet to become a parent," he said
Gawdat took a step further, drawing a parallel between the possible future and dystopian movies such as Blade Runner.
"There has never been such a perfect storm in the history of humanity," Gawdat said. "Economic, geopolitical, global warming, climate change, the whole idea of AI — this is a perfect storm; the depth of uncertainty... it has never been more intense. If you really loved your kids,would you really want to expose them to all this?"
"I have spent my career fascinated by the role that technology plays, and now the biggest challenge humanity has ever faced is upon us," Gawdat said.
He added that AI is the culmination of technological advancement and that its effect will “be unprecedented in defining the way the world is shaped".
"The sophistication of digital intelligence is such that it has become autonomous and is something that needs to be appealed to rather than controlled," he said. "It’s vital we stay attuned to how to do this or risk being left behind.”
Industry executives are no strangers to issuing dire AI warnings. Big names like Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak likewise asked to slow down innovation several months ago.
A former Google employee, also known as the Godfather of AI, Geoffrey Hinton, had an honest talk with the New York Times in which he also warned about AI dangers.
Previously, Gagarin News reported that Musk argues OpenAI's commercialization is illegal, sparking Altman to release a new, open-source AI model.
