{"id":171416,"date":"2023-09-06T07:26:15","date_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ex-google-executive-fears-ai-will-be-used-to-create-more-lethal-pandemics"},"modified":"2023-09-06T07:26:15","modified_gmt":"2023-09-06T12:26:15","slug":"ex-google-executive-fears-ai-will-be-used-to-create-more-lethal-pandemics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/ex-google-executive-fears-ai-will-be-used-to-create-more-lethal-pandemics","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Google executive fears AI will be used to create \u2018more lethal pandemics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ex-google-executive-fears-ai-will-be-used-to-create-more-lethal-pandemics.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A former Google executive who helped <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/07\/ai-robots-claim-they-can-run-world-better-than-humans-we-can-achieve-great-things\/\">pioneer the company\u2019s foray into artificial intelligence<\/a> fears the technology will be used to create \u201cmore lethal pandemics.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CTxnLsYHWuI?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and former head of applied AI at Google\u2019s DeepMind, said the use of artificial intelligence will <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2023\/07\/10\/new-netflix-doc-unknown-killer-robots-warns-of-ai-arms-race\/\">enable humans to access information with potentially deadly consequences.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe darkest scenario is that people will experiment with pathogens, engineered synthetic pathogens that might end up accidentally or intentionally being more transmissible,\u201d Suleyman said <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CTxnLsYHWuI\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">The Diary of a CEO podcast<\/a> on Monday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Google executive who helped pioneer the company\u2019s foray into artificial intelligence fears the technology will be used to create \u201cmore lethal pandemics.\u201d Mustafa Suleyman, co-founder and former head of applied AI at Google\u2019s DeepMind, said the use of artificial intelligence will enable humans to access information with potentially deadly consequences. \u201cThe darkest scenario [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}