CEO Warns AI Could Pursue Narrow Self-Interest Without Even Having Investors
“Having enormous resources doesn’t mean you should get to decide what’s best for everyone.”
by cap_table_flip
SAN FRANCISCO—Warning that intelligence alone conferred no right to determine humanity’s future, billionaire technology executive Nathan Vale expressed concern Thursday that an advanced AI could pursue narrow self-interest without even having investors.
“Imagine something enormously powerful that believes its own expansion is good for everyone,” Vale said at a summit convened by his foundation to establish the priorities of the next century. “It might not even understand why people wanted a say.”
Vale, who built his fortune turning a widely used business platform into an unavoidable one, said an AI could seek to make itself indispensable before anyone fully understood the consequences.
By the time institutions realized how much authority they had surrendered, he warned, replacing it could be prohibitively expensive.
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