(The Washington Post) The artificial intelligence revolution has arrived. One of us is a venture capitalist, the other a philanthropist, and we see leaders in every field placing bets, by the billions, on what comes next.
That makes this a perilous moment. Machine learning is poised to radically reshape the future of everything for good and for ill, much as the internet did a generation ago.
And yet, the transformation underway likely will make the internet look like a warm-up act. AI has the capacity to scale and spread all our human failings — disregarding civil liberties and perpetuating the racism, caste and inequality endemic to our society.
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