Henry Kissinger on a potential artificial intelligence arms race

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It would be a totally new problem intellectually, veteran US diplomat Henry Kissinger said during an interview with CBS news recently...

When the former secretary of state was asked that theoretically, the US has declared that it will always maintain and insist upon human control of artificial intelligence, but from a practical point of view, it's impossible..

The nobel laureate said "Well, it's a highly desirable objective, but the speed with which artificial intelligence acts will make it problematical in crisis situations.".

Kissinger, an architect of the cold war policy towards the Soviet Union as secretary of state under Richard Nixon and Gerald Ford said under a wartime situation, for example, in which AI recommends a course of action that the President and his advisors consider horrifyingly unwise..

The dissolution of Russia or destroying its ability for strategic policy could turn its territory encompassing 11 time zones into a contested vacuum,"Kissinger wrote in the article titled "How to avoid another world war"..