Henry Kissinger says he wants to call attention to the dangers of A.I. the same way he did for nuclear weapons but warns it's a 'totally new problem'

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At 99 years old, an elder statesman like Henry Kissinger could be forgiven for not being up to speed on artificial intelligence. But the former diplomat who served under two presidents and played a key role in defining American foreign policy during the Cold War has become a frequent opiner on A.I.’s latest developments, and Kissinger’s campaign to acknowledge the technology’s dangers might be one of the final puzzle pieces to his legacy.

Talk over A.I. has hit a fever pitch in recent months, since the debut of OpenAI’s ChatGPT in November pushed Microsoft, Google, and other tech companies to kick off an A.I. arms race. People and businesses are now using A.I. in record numbers, while companies could be inching closer to cracking the code on human-like artificial intelligence.