Tim Cook was asked about extinction risks from AI

By Saul Munn @ 2023-06-06T18:46 (+8)

Tim Cook (CEO of Apple) was on Good Morning America. The reporter asked about his concerns on AI, including extinction.

Q: You said, you want to remain deliberate and thoughtful in your approach. So what are your concerns?

...What people are now talking about are these large language models. And, I think they have great promise. I do think that it's so important to be very deliberate and very thoughtful in the development and the deployment of these. Because they can be so powerful that you worry about things like bias, things like misinformation, maybe worse in some cases.

Q: You saw a lot of leaders in this area coming together, and they were really sounding the alarm. They went so far as to use the word extinction ... of the human race.

Regulation is something that's needed in this space, I think guardrails are needed. And if you look down the road, that it's so powerful that companies have to employ their own ethical decisions. Regulation will have a difficult time staying even with the progress on this because its moving so quickly. And so I think it's incumbent on companies, as well, to regulate themselves.

On ChatGPT:

Oh, of course I use it! Yeah, I'm excited about it. I think there's some unique applications for it, and you can bet that it's something we're looking at closely.

More in the full video, but it gets pretty off-topic after ~2:10.