Researcher sees a different AI danger than tech giants' own warnings

The past few weeks have brought a wave of resignations and unusual warnings from people at the top of the AI industry. That has sparked a debate about how dangerous artificial intelligence really is.

AI researcher Morten Axel Pedersen has been researching artificial intelligence for several years. He also sees major risks in the technology, but believes a more realistic catastrophe will arise somewhere other than in the machines themselves.

In other words, he is not pointing to the technology itself running amok, but rather to how people and companies choose to use and govern it. According to him, that is where the real danger lies.