Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with Tesla CEO Elon Musk, MIT professor Max Tegmark, and OpenAI president Greg Brockman on Sunday for a round-table discussion about artificial intelligence safety. It got interesting.
Their conversation touched on potential goldilocks AI scenarios, where the technology could usher in an age of abundance and leisure, but even more time was spent pondering the potential risks—and Netanyahu was a remarkably level-headed critic. The Israeli leader said he fears that AI could incentivize the rise of giant tech monopolies that take away more jobs than they create, and argued regulators are behind the ball when accounting for this new reality. His criticisms managed to say what everyone has been thinking throughout 2023 about this emergent technology.
