Clinton’s warning on artificial intelligence ‘contradictory’: Analyst

Recent remarks by former US Secretary Of State Hillary Clinton about the dangers linked to artificial intelligence in the country are “contradictory,” says a political analyst.

In a report published by The Verge on Thursday, Clinton said America is "totally unprepared" for the economic and societal effects of artificial intelligence.

The former secretary of state said the world was “racing headfirst into a new era of artificial intelligence” that would affect “how we live, how we think, [and] how we relate to each other.”

The story “is an accurate depiction of the American unpreparedness for the rise of advanced intelligence and technology and computerization, and vehicles, and the equipment grids that run the American life,” said Scott Bennett, former US army psychological warfare officer and counter-terrorism analyst.

“But it is also somehow contradictory because Hillary Clinton is the opposite of everything she’s portrayed in this article, she is a sort of a quasi-megalomaniac, power-hungry dominatrix that seeks to be in the elite position with government and control everyone else,” added Bennett.

“So it’s ironic coming from her, I think it is a political shift for her to move in the direction of the general American population’s feelings,” he told Press TV on Saturday.

He went on to say that the story raises interesting questions about whether the American population and the industries are “prepared for the advancement of artificial intelligence and super intelligence computer system that will replace much of the American labor and manual labor, blue collar positions as well as some areas of white collar, accounting business.”

“The answer, of course, is the American people do not have a choice, artificial intelligence like technology is the one thing that never changes and it cannot change, it is constantly evolving,” he said.

In the report, Clinton was quoted as saying that the greatest danger loomed in two specific areas: spying and automation.

First, artificial intelligence will be spying on everybody, recording “everything we know and everything we say and everything we write," she said.

Secondly, artificial intelligence will lead to job automation and that will replace humans.

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