The American billionaire warned against the excesses of artificial intelligence, which he compared to nuclear power, during the general meeting of his fund, Berkshire Hathaway.
Artificial intelligence as dangerous as the atomic bomb? This is the omen of American billionaire Warren Buffet, one of the most listened to investors on the planet. “ We let the genie out of the bottle when we developed nuclear weapons, Warren Buffet declared on Saturday during the general meeting of his fund, Berkshire Hathaway, in Omaha (Nebraska). With AI, it looks like that. AI is already partly out of the bottle. »
Although he admits that he does not know much about how this technology works, Warren Buffet believes he has reason to be concerned. “ AI has immense potential to improve things but also to do harm. And I don’t know how it will balance out », he declares. The American billionaire recently discovered his own voice and image replicated by AI-based software.
The fear of deepfakes
A result so convincing that even his wife and children would have had difficulty telling the difference… Warren Buffett fears the use of deepfakes for criminal purposes, particularly with the aim of extorting money. When it comes to scams, “ it will be the most lucrative industry of all time »he warns.
Meta’s very expensive new ambitions in artificial intelligence
The investor’s warning comes in a context of the rise of AI, set to disrupt entire sections of the economy. Some experts are already predicting millions of job cuts as AI enables increasingly sophisticated tasks within businesses. The debate between skeptics and optimists has only just begun.
