Ex Google CEO Calls For Mutually Assured AI-Destruction

The promise of AI is that we humans might one day build something smarter than ourselves. But because we’re humans, chances are that we will first use it to gain power and spark conflicts. Luckily, according to a new “Superintelligence Strategy,” —authored, among others by Google’s ex-CEO Eric Schmidt—we’re well on the way to Mutually Assured AI Malfunction (MAIM), sort of like the “Mutually Assured Destruction” of nuclear war. Let’s take a look.