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Eric Schmidt, former CEO of Google, at the America Business Forum at Miami's Kaseya Center in November. Schmidt has issued a warning about the dangers of AI.Alexander Tamargo/Getty Images
The dire warnings about AI keep coming.
Eric Schmidt, former chief executive of Google, says that within a few years, millions of independent AI agents working together “will develop their own language.” And “we won’t understand what they’re doing.” They will have escaped human control.
The University of Montreal computer scientist and AI pioneer Yoshua Bengio told The Guardian this week that AI models were showing signs of self-preservation, the capacity to evade guardrails and to inflict harm on humans. Without controls, he said, AI systems will be free to operate like hostile extraterrestrials.
“I always thought AI was going to be way smarter than humans and an existential risk. And that’s turning out to be true,” Elon Musk says.
In 2026, it’s a good bet demagogic disruptor Donald Trump will again be wreaking havoc on almost a daily basis. But as the technological tsunami that is AI continues to be unleashed, it makes his undoing of norms look small by comparison.
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