China Catches Up to US in AI, Posing Existential Threat: Former Google CEO | Business Matters (Dec. 16)

Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that autonomous artificial intelligence (AI) is coming—and that it could pose an existential threat to humanity. “We’re soon going to be able to have computers running on their own, deciding what they want to do,” Schmidt, who has long raised the alarm about both the dangers and the benefits AI poses to humanity, said during a Dec. 15 appearance on ABC’s “This Week.”