In March this year, citing profound risks to humanity, hundreds of scientists and technology executives signed an open letter urging a moratorium on the development of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) systems. But Professor Eric Xing says pressing pause would be a terrible mistake.
Xing is President of the Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence (MBZUAI), the world’s first graduate research university focused exclusively on AI. He sees AI not as an existential threat, but as an extraordinary opportunity to move human civilization
