I recently read two great pieces on General Milley and Mitt Romney. Going back an issue or so, there's a stellar piece on AI with the focus on Sam Altman's OpenAI. There are many fascinating anecdotes but a few really stand out.

AI can provide details on bomb making that also include which skyscrapers to target for maximum casualties and then provide the best escape route for the terrorists! 

And how about this. We've all seen photographs appear that we have to manipulate in order to prove we aren't a robot so we can enter a site. Well, an AI convinced someone or some other AI that it was a visually impaired person and therefore it couldn't perform the requisite task. This lie was believed and the AI accessed the site. 

Holy shit, a few Stanford and MIT grads (and dropouts actually) have developed and somewhat unleashed something that they admit to not fully understanding. Given that it's akin to an arms race, there's no way the genie will go back in the bottle because the first nation who has whatever it is they all seek, is the winner.

To do this right, we need more than just brilliant computer scientists. We need the input of ethicists, politicians, economists, historians, the defense industry, big tech, and surely some I can't think of at the moment. How do we align human values with AI?

Peter T.