![]() ![]() Will it tell me to break up with my dog? That's bad. Will it put law clerks out of a job? That's bad. SHANKER: Most of the public discussion of AI so far has been about, will it write my kid's homework? That's bad. He says a prime example is the dangers of computers run by artificial intelligence. Shanker does not advocate a bigger military budget to counter these threats, but he does argue the government needs to make smarter use of the resources it has. They think about ways to counter the advanced weaponry of China. They think about low-lying naval bases that may be underwater in a few decades thanks to climate change. He says national security professionals warn about diseases designed to destroy American crops. Shanker co-authored a book with Andrew Hoehn called "Age Of Danger." It's a catalogue of threats that might keep people up at night if only they knew. We haven't thought about some of these things. And for those 20 years, we ignored lots of rising threats. And for 20 years, we make the case that this government focused on counterterrorism, zoom-like focus. ![]() THOM SHANKER: There's a lot of very scary things out there. And he tells our co-host, Steve Inskeep, that he's thinking about threats in the not-too-distant future. The journalist Thom Shanker spent decades covering American wars and national security. ![]()
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