Journal Editorial Report: Paul Gigot interviews Wall Street Journal columnist Andy Kessler. Images: Zuma Press/WSJ Composite: Mark KellyThe best lesson for artificial intelligence may be Thursday’s “rapid unscheduled disassembly” of SpaceX’s Starship rocket, aborted four minutes after launch.
Not to be outdone, decision theorist Eliezer Yudkowsky recently wrote in Time magazine that the “most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI” is that “literally everyone on Earth will die.” Literally everyone! That’s ludicrous, as is most clickbait these days. Sam Altman, CEO of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, told podcaster Lex Fridman, “There is some chance of that.” C’mon now.