Edoardo Campanella for PS On Point: Which AI Risks Matter?

Edoardo Campanella considers three leading experts’ assessments of the technology’s future capabilities and their implications. [View this message in a web browser]( [PS On Point]( FEBRUARY 23, 2024 To prevent humanity from ever being demoted to the status of gorillas by a highly advanced artificial intelligence, most AI experts agree that we must retain control over the technology. But with developers racing to achieve the next breakthrough and gain market share, that may be easier said than done, writes Edoardo Campanella, a fellow at the Center for the Governance of Change at IE University in Madrid. [Read more]( [PS. Save 40% on a new Digital or Digital Plus subscription.]( [PS Longer Reads: Which AI Risks Matter?]( [Which AI Risks Matter?]( By Edoardo Campanella Although overly confident predictions about artificial intelligence are as old as the field itself, there is good reason to take seriously the risks associated with the technology. Like a future asteroid strike, the emergence of an intelligence that could marginalize humanity is as plausible as human evolution itself. [Read more]( [PS Big Picture: Europe Must Defend Itself]( [Europe Must Defend Itself]( with Joschka Fischer, Philippe Legrain, Mark Leonard, and Daniela Schwarzer Donald Trump – who spent his presidency lambasting NATO – recently suggested that he would encourage Russian aggression against NATO allies that had not met their commitment to spend 2% of GDP on defense. With Trump vying for another term in the White House – and the Ukraine war still raging on the European Union’s doorstep – EU countries can no longer ignore the difficult but essential task of taking charge of their own security. [Read more]( [PS Say More: Tim O'Reilly on AI development, regulation, copyright lawsuits, and more]( [Tim O'Reilly on AI development, regulation, copyright lawsuits, and more]( Tim O'Reilly shows how the imperatives of modern capitalism impede the development of broadly beneficial artificial intelligence, criticizes prevailing regulatory approaches to data privacy, considers how Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos went from value-creators to value-extractors, and more. O'Reilly is Founder and CEO of O’Reilly Media, Inc., and Visiting Professor of Practice at the University College London Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose. [Read more]( [PS Longer Reads: What Was Capitalism?]( [What Was Capitalism?]( By James Livingston The economic crisis of 2008-09 and the pandemic of 2020-21 delivered devastating blows to a market society that was already staggering – hollowed out by the “financialization” or “dematerialization” of assets. And those perched at the commanding heights of today's economy seem no less hollow. [Read more]( [PS. Sign up for PS newsletters.]( [Facebook]( [Twitter]( [LinkedIn]( Project Syndicate publishes and provides, on a not-for-profit basis, original commentary by the world's leading thinkers to more than 500 media outlets in over 150 countries. Receipt of this newsletter does not guarantee rights to re-publish any of its content. This newsletter is a service of [Project Syndicate](. [Change your newsletter preferences](. Follow us on [Facebook]( [Twitter]( and [YouTube](. © Project Syndicate, all rights reserved. [Unsubscribe from all newsletters](.