Igor Yablokov
Appearances
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
I went to this tech conference about two weeks ago out west, and I just want to share with you what I learned there. There was a tech panel that had four of the leading modelers of the AI models that we're all using today. The quick three takeaways from that are, one, wow, AI can be such a force for good. And we're gonna see it immediately in both health and education very quickly.
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
That's the good news. Two, the neutral news. These models are increasing in their efficiency and performance. And then thirdly, and the one that disturbed me the most is that AI clearly poses an imminent security threat, imminent in our lifetimes to humanity. And kind of about halfway through, someone asked him on AI security. well, what are you doing on AI security?
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
And they said, the competitive dynamic is so intense among the companies and then geopolitically between Russia and China that there's no agency, no ability to stop and say, maybe we should think about what actually we're creating and building here. And then he went on to say, I think it's going to take an accident
To Catch a Thief: China’s Rise to Cyber Supremacy
Ep 9: The New Frontline
where 50 to 100 million people die to make the world take the threat of this really seriously. Well, that was a freaky deke to me, and no one pushed back on him on that panel.