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Warren Buffett took a cautionary stance connected artificial intelligence connected Saturday astatine Berkshire Hathaway’s yearly meeting, comparing nan exertion erstwhile again to nan advent of atomic weapons and informing astir nan imaginable for scams.
"I don’t cognize thing astir AI," nan billionaire investor and co-founder of Berkshire Hathaway admitted, "but that doesn’t mean I contradict its beingness aliases value aliases thing of nan sort."
He reiterated what he said past year: "That we fto a ghost retired of nan vessel erstwhile we developed atomic weapons. And that ghost has been now doing immoderate unspeakable things lately. And nan powerfulness of that ghost is, you know, scares nan hellhole retired of me. And connected nan different hand, I don’t cognize immoderate measurement to get nan ghost backmost successful nan bottle."
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Warren Buffett took a cautionary stance connected artificial intelligence Saturday astatine Berkshire Hathaway’s yearly meeting. (Daniel Zuchnik/WireImage / Getty Images)
The 93-year-old philanthropist said AI is "somewhat similar."
"It’s portion nan measurement retired of nan vessel and it’s enormously important and it’s going to beryllium done by personification truthful we whitethorn wish we’d ne'er seen that genie, aliases it whitethorn do awesome things," he said.
He besides talked astir nan "enormous potential" for scams utilizing AI.
Buffett said AI has tremendous imaginable for bully and bad. (Getty Images)
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"If you tin reproduce images I can’t moreover show that opportunity ‘I request money,’ you know, ‘It’s your daughter, conscionable had a car crash. I request $50,000 wired.’ I mean, scamming has ever been portion of nan American scene, but this would make me, if I was willing successful investing successful scamming, it’s going to beryllium nan maturation manufacture of each time. And it’s enabled successful a way. Obviously, AI has imaginable for bully things excessively but I don’t cognize really you, based connected nan 1 I saw recently, I practically would nonstop money to myself complete and complete successful immoderate crazy country."
Buffett said he thought AI would make scamming nan "growth manufacture of each time." (Christopher Goodney/Bloomberg via Getty Images / Getty Images)
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He said he didn’t person immoderate proposal connected really nan world should grip AI, "because I don’t deliberation we cognize really to grip what we did pinch nan atomic genie. But I do deliberation arsenic personification who doesn’t understand a damn point astir it, it has tremendous imaginable for bully and tremendous imaginable for harm, and I conscionable don’t cognize really that plays out."
This weekend's gathering was nan first without Berkshire Hathaway's vice president Charlie Munger, who died past autumn astatine 99.
