Many have raised concerns about the potential risks of AI. Some of these are dystopian scenarios that are a credit to the imagination but are grounded only in fear and ignorance.
Michael Groen
former director of the Pentagon's Joint Artificial Intelligence Center
In a November 2024 Cipher Brief column, Michael Groen wrote that many have raised concerns about the potential risks of AI and that some of these are dystopian scenarios that are a credit to the imagination but are grounded only in fear and ignorance.
Former Director, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center, DoDPublished November 1, 2024 · date of remarks not establishedExpert opinion article: The US Risks Losing the Competition for ‘Innovation Power’
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We should not be willing to build a transformational world-leading innovative environment only to have it fall prey to fear, local agendas, political posturing or unimaginative bureaucratic practice. Many have raised concerns about the potential risks of AI. Some of these are dystopian scenarios that are a credit to the imagination but are grounded only in fear and ignorance. In fact, there is a robust Responsible AI ecosystem of national security, intelligence, international, academic and commercial practitioners that have built secure AI frameworks. This work continues. AI Ethics is a leading course of study.
What this quote does not say
- The sentence does not identify which specific dystopian scenarios Groen rejects and therefore must not be generalized to all existential or loss-of-control arguments.
- The same column argues that a robust Responsible AI ecosystem already exists and that regulation should use 'a scalpel... rather than an axe'; Groen's objection in context is to what he calls arbitrary or gratuitous regulation, not to AI risk work as such.
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