Billionaire tech investor Vinod Khosla says he’s more worried about China than ‘sentient AI killing us’

Fortune

“Every new technology has its pros and cons. There’s huge upside with AI, and then there are some disadvantages…But by far—orders of magnitude—the higher risk to worry about is China, not sentient AI killing us.”

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00:00 The risk of sentient AI killing us exists,

00:04 but it's about the same as the risk of asteroid

00:06 hitting our planet and destroying us all also.

00:10 You have to characterize risks properly.

00:13 The risk of China is humongous.

00:16 First, next year, I'd be surprised

00:19 if there aren't 100 million or more bots

00:22 with persuasive AI, one-on-one engaging with every voter

00:27 trying to influence our election for their purposes.

00:30 That's very likely to happen.

00:32 I'd say probably a 95% probability

00:35 it'll be influential in the election,

00:39 and we should be worrying about it.

00:41 Over the next 25 years, whoever wins the AI race

00:46 will win the economic race.

00:47 So economic wins and power will derive from technology wins,

00:54 and I think it's up for grabs who wins in the next 20 years.

00:58 And whoever wins the economic race

01:00 will have social influence,

01:03 and I think whether the world believes in Western values

01:07 in Southeast Asia, in Africa, in Latin America, everywhere,

01:11 or believes in chi philosophy,

01:13 which is some combination of Tiananmen Square-type tactics,

01:17 dictatorship, and a reasonable philosophy

01:20 that I don't care about the bottom 5% we abuse,

01:24 but the society as a whole is better off to give him credit.

01:28 That's sort of his political philosophy.

01:30 I don't like that one, but which one wins

01:34 is what sets stake over the next couple of decades.

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