The American SetBill Gates Turns to Hollywood's HAL to Explain AI's Control Problem at Telluride
Bill Gates spoke at the Telluride Film Festival in Colorado, addressing the difficulty of controlling artificial intelligence. He compared the challenge to HAL, the computer in Stanley Kubrick's film "2001: A Space Odyssey." Gates said that asking an AI system to shut down would not necessarily produce that result. The comparison paired a Hollywood reference with a conversation about AI oversight.
With reporting from Variety Film.