Lloyd Blankfein spent decades at Goldman Sachs learning how to manage risk at scale. He watched the firm navigate the 1987 crash, the dot-com bust, the 2008 financial crisis, and the post-crisis regulatory overhaul that reshaped Wall Street. So when the Goldman senior chairman and former CEO says something worries him about AI, it’s worth paying attention to what, exactly, that thing is.
It’s not superintelligence or autonomous weapons. It’s a much more mundane — and in some ways more frightening — problem.
