AI 'as dangerous as a nuclear bomb', says Peter Gluckman

AI 'as dangerous as a nuclear bomb', says Peter Gluckman
Peter Gluckman says AI raises issues of democracy and national security, as well as opportunities. (Image: NZME)
Daniel Dunkley
News publishers may struggle to force artificial intelligence companies to pay for using their content, one of New Zealand’s leading scientists has warned.Peter Gluckman, president of the Paris-based International Science Council and director of think tank Koi Tū: the Centre for Informed Futures, believes newsgroups will need to be “very specific” about how stories have been used by chatbots as they look for compensation from artificial intelligence (AI) platforms.“If I give a speech based on something I have read in a n...

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