{"id":94435,"date":"2019-08-04T18:22:36","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:22:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/peter-thiel-said-that-ai-is-a-military-technology-that-will-primarily-be-used-by-generals-but-experts-say-that-view-is-too-pessimistic"},"modified":"2019-08-04T18:22:36","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T01:22:36","slug":"peter-thiel-said-that-ai-is-a-military-technology-that-will-primarily-be-used-by-generals-but-experts-say-that-view-is-too-pessimistic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/08\/peter-thiel-said-that-ai-is-a-military-technology-that-will-primarily-be-used-by-generals-but-experts-say-that-view-is-too-pessimistic","title":{"rendered":"Peter Thiel said that AI is a military technology that will primarily be used \u2018by generals,\u2019 but experts say that view is too pessimistic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/peter-thiel-said-that-ai-is-a-military-technology-that-will-primarily-be-used-by-generals-but-experts-say-that-view-is-too-pessimistic2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech billionaire Peter Thiel painted a gloomy picture of artificial intelligence in his <a href=https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2019\/08\/01\/opinion\/peter-thiel-google.html > NYT\u2019s op-ed<\/a> on Thursday, detailing the technology\u2019s real value and purpose as primarily a military one.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe first users of the machine learning tools being created today will be generals,\u201d Thiel declared in his 1,200-word piece. \u201cA.I. is a military technology.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Thiel\u2019s portrayal is a far cry from the optimistic view that many in Silicon Valley have embraced. Artificial intelligence <a href=https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/how-ai-is-changing-everything-2019-7 > has promised<\/a> to give us the next, best Netflix recommendations, let us search the internet using our voices, and do away with humans behind the wheel. It\u2019s also expected to have a huge impact in medicine and agriculture. But instead, Thiel says that AI\u2019s real home is on the battlefield \u2014 whether that be in the physical or cyber worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech billionaire Peter Thiel painted a gloomy picture of artificial intelligence in his NYT\u2019s op-ed on Thursday, detailing the technology\u2019s real value and purpose as primarily a military one. \u201cThe first users of the machine learning tools being created today will be generals,\u201d Thiel declared in his 1,200-word piece. \u201cA.I. is a military technology.\u201d Thiel\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1506,418,9,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-94435","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-food","category-internet","category-military","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435","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\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94435"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94435\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94435"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94435"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94435"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}