Bridgewater Co-CIO Greg Jensen Warns AI Will Kill Before Regulated
Jensen said AI could kill people before regulators respond and urged legal liability for developers, a machine-labor tax and slower development.
- Bridgewater Associates co-chief investment officer Greg Jensen warned Friday that artificial intelligence will cause deaths before regulators take meaningful action to contain its risks.
- Despite his alarm, Jensen is not a newcomer to the technology; he was an early investor in OpenAI and Anthropic and currently oversees Bridgewater's in-house AI lab.
- Within three years, 14% of current jobs will be fundamentally changed, Jensen estimated; Bridgewater's AI has nearly closed the gap with human intuition developed over decades within two and a half years.
- On Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast, Jensen said, "Until the AI starts killing people, unfortunately, history would suggest we're not going to do anything." He also proposed holding developers liable for AI crimes and taxing machine labor.
- Pointing to the Hugging Face hack as an early warning sign, Jensen stated, "The longer you wait, the more hopeless it gets," adding he expects AI to surpass Bridgewater's collective human judgment within a couple of years.
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Greg Jensen, investment co-director of one of the world's largest hedge funds, made a gloomy warning on Friday about the risks and consequences of the artificial intelligence boom (AI), during Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast. Unfortunately, it's like it was in February 2020, said Jensen, when comparing AI to the first days of the coronavirus pandemic. Until AI start killing people, unfortunately, history suggests we're not going to do anything, but…
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Greg Jensen, co-director of investments in one of the world's largest hedge funds, issued a gloomy warning on Friday about the risks and consequences of the rise of artificial intelligence in Bloomberg's Odd Lots podcast.
When the number two of one of the most powerful hedge funds in the world says that the current phase of artificial intelligence is more dangerous than the previous ones, it is not an alarm to be taken lightly. Greg Jensen, co-CIO of Bridgewater and responsible for the AI strategy of the fund, put figures on the table that directly concern [...]
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