AI Disinformation Is Existential Threat, Doomsday Clock Scientist Warns
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists has updated its Doomsday Clock, a symbolic timer of how close humanity is to destroying the world, keeping it at 90 seconds to midnight. Herb Lin, a cyber policy and security senior research scholar at Stanford University, speaks to TaiwanPlus.
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00:00 The doomsday clock is set to 90 seconds to midnight. The closest it's been to global destruction in seven decades. The threat
00:09 of global a global nuclear arms race climate change emerging biological threats and A.I. was cited as driving the existential
00:16 risk. And one of the scientists who helped set the symbolic clock says A.I. enabled disinformation could prevent the world
00:24 from dealing with any threats. You know the problems of the world right now are pretty hard. They're hard problems. And if
00:31 we don't even agree on the facts. Then we're never going to be able to solve it. So it is disinformation. A.I. enabled
00:38 disinformation makes it harder to solve very very deep problems.