Vinod Khosla, the legendary investor who helped start Sun Microsystems, thinks AI "doomers" are focusing on the wrong risks and should instead worry about China. Khosla appeared Tuesday at Fortune Brainstorm AI 2023 in San Francisco.
Khosla told a crowd filled with technology and venture executives that every powerful tech comes with a risk. He pointed to nuclear and biotechnology; either could be used for good or bad purposes, the VC said. Artificial intelligence has disadvantages but promises huge upside, he said. “But by far—orders of magnitude—the higher risk to worry about is China, not sentient AI killing us,” Khosla said.
