The Pope’s AI Guy Is Worried About ‘Cartel’ Behavior Among Big Labs

# The Pope's AI Advisor Warns Against Big Tech Monopolies The Vatican's AI expert is less concerned about AI becoming superintelligent and destroying humanity than he is about a handful of powerful companies controlling the technology like a cartel. He thinks the focus on doomsday scenarios is actually distracting us from the more urgent problem: we need real public debate and rules about how these companies should be allowed to operate. In other words, the biggest risk right now isn't killer robots—it's a few tech giants making all the decisions about AI while the rest of us have no say.
Paolo Benanti tells WIRED that hysteria over whether godlike AI could destroy humanity is distracting from the need for public debate about how to govern the technology.
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