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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Technology
Dan Milmo and Alex Hern

From pope’s jacket to napalm recipes: how worrying is AI’s rapid growth?

An AI-generated deepfake image of pope Francis wearing a puffer jacket.
An AI-generated deepfake image of pope Francis wearing a puffer jacket. Photograph: Reddit

When the boss of Google admits to losing sleep over the negative potential of artificial intelligence, perhaps it is time to get worried.

Sundar Pichai told the CBS programme 60 Minutes this month that AI could be “very harmful” if deployed wrongly, and was developing fast. “So does that keep me up at night? Absolutely,” he said.

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