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…