Almost three years ago—long before an artificial intelligence researcher named Jacob Coxon warned that “the people building AI earnestly believe it could kill us all by the end of the decade”—former Texas Congressman Will Hurd went public with his own AI dreams and nightmares. Hurd likened AI to nothing less than nuclear fission. “How do we ensure the discovery of [AI] is a net positive for humanity, not an extinction-level event?” he wrote in an essay in Politico.Hurd was well positioned to offer an answer. A former undercover CIA officer and computer science major at Texas A&M University, he had served three terms as a Republican in the U.S. House, where he demonstrated a keen interest in tech policy. After leaving Congress in 2021, he…The post Will Hurd Worked With Sam Altman. His (P)Doom Is “Not Zero.” appeared first on Texas Monthly.
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