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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Rachel Hall

Rogue states could use AI to do ‘real harm’, warns ex-Google CEO

Eric Schmidt
Eric Schmidt urged government oversight on private tech companies that are developing AI models. Photograph: Benoît Tessier/Reuters

Google’s former chief executive has warned that artificial intelligence could be used by rogue states such as North Korea, Iran and Russia to “harm innocent people”.

Eric Schmidt, who held senior posts at Google from 2001 to 2017, told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme that those countries and terrorists could adopt and misuse the technology to develop weapons to create “a bad biological attack from some evil person”.

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