A big-tech defector’s AI warning for the world

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In the last week, AI bosses around the world have suddenly grown a conscience, urging a global slowdown amid fears the race to develop artificial intelligence could outstrip humanity's ability to control it.

For Dex Hunter-Tauriq, that realization came a little sooner.

The big tech insider walked away last year, disillusioned after spending 15 years inside the belly of the beast.

He wrote speeches for Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, worked with Elon Musk at SpaceX, and most recently helped Google DeepMind explain the rise of artificial intelligence to the world.

Now he says society's making the same mistakes with AI as it did in the social media era, sleepwalking into what comes next.

Today, founder and president of the Center for Tomorrow, Dex Hunter-Tauriq, gives us a glimpse inside the big tech firms shaping our future.

[instrumental music] It's Wednesday, September 16th.

[instrumental music] I'm Daniel James, and you're listening to 7AM.

In the last week, AI bosses around the world have suddenly grown a conscience, urging a global slowdown amid fears the race to develop artificial intelligence could outstrip humanity's ability to control it.

For Dex Hunter-Tauriq, that realization came a little sooner.

The big tech insider walked away last year, disillusioned after spending 15 years inside the belly of the beast.

He wrote speeches for Mark Zuckerberg at Facebook, worked with Elon Musk at SpaceX, and most recently helped Google DeepMind explain the rise of artificial intelligence to the world.

Now he says society's making the same mistakes with AI as it did in the social media era, sleepwalking into what comes next.

Today, founder and president of the Center for Tomorrow, Dex Hunter-Tauriq, gives us a glimpse inside the big tech firms shaping our future.

[instrumental music] It's Wednesday, September 16th.