Eric Schmidt on AI safety: A “modest death event” (Chernobyl-level) might be the trigger for public understanding of the risks.
He parallels this to the post-Hiroshima invention of mutually assured destruction, stressing the need for preemptive AI safety.
“ I’d rather do it… pic.twitter.com/jcTSc0H60C
— vitruvian potato (@vitrupo) March 15, 2025
‘The core problem today is bio and cyber cyber because it’s pretty obvious right that if you if you do enough reinforcement learning you can eventually find a zero day exploit as as they’re called so imagine if you have a super intelligence they can find them all very quickly we’ll see if that happens and in BIO it turns out it’s relatively easy to take existing viruses and modify them so that the various Solutions and detections don’t work and then they kill a lot of people now thank goodness this hasn’t not happened yet.” — Eric Schmidt