Artificial intelligence is advancing at a breakneck pace. Earlier this month, one of the world's most famous AI researchers, Geoffrey Hinton, left his job at Google to warn us of the existential threat it poses. Executives of the leading AI companies are making the rounds in Washington to meet with the Biden administration and Congress to discuss its promise and perils. This is what it feels like to stand at the hinge of history.
An AI trained on pharmaceutical data in 2022 to design non-toxic chemicals had its sign flipped and quickly came up with recipes for nerve gas and 40,000 other lethal compounds.
