Should we be worried about accidently creating Skynet, the AI of doom?


Illustration of a robot with the ChatGPT logo. As Jeff Goldblum's character in the 'Jurassic Park' movies famously says, 'Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should'. Well, with AI, we definitely should, says our columnist – but it’s how we do it responsibly that is the hard part. — Reuters

In my column in February about artificial intelligence (AI) and ChatGPT, I compared the new chat bot to autocorrect on steroids ("Did ChatGPT say it can 'hack systems' and it wants to 'kill people' Yes, but wait!", The Star, Feb 26)

Well, that’s changed.

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