Billionaire Investor Warren Buffet Compares AI to the Atomic Bomb, Says 'Get A Little Bit Worried'

The sharp remarks from Warren came a few days after Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as ‘Godfather of AI’, warned that AI could pose a ‘more urgent’ threat to humanity than climate change.

Warren Buffet Compares AI to the Atomic Bomb, Says 'Get A Little Bit Worried'

New Delhi: The billionaire and the CEO of investment firm Berkshire Hathaway, Warren Buffet compared the creation of the powerful technology Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the atomic bomb in the company’s annual meeting in Omaha, Nebraska, New York Post reported.

The sharp remarks came a few days after Geoffrey Hinton, widely known as ‘Godfather of AI’, warned that AI could pose a ‘more urgent’ threat to humanity than climate change.

''When something can do all kinds of things, I get a little bit worried. Because I know we won't be able to un-invent it and, you know, we did invent, for very, very good reason, the atom bomb in World War II'', Buffet said.

"It was enormously important that we did so. But is it good for the next two hundred years of the world that the ability to do so has been unleashed?" he continued. He further said he believes AI will change “everything in the world, except how men think and behave.”

"We didn't have a choice, but when you start something, well, Einstein said after the atomic bomb, he said, this has changed everything in the world except how men think. And I would say the same thing, maybe not the same thing, I don't mean that, but I mean with AI, it can change everything in the world except how men think and behave. And that's a big step to take," he added. 

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