Henry Kissinger: scientists must understand history

US foreign policy giant Henry Kissinger has urged budding scientists to steep 바카라사이트mselves in history and o바카라사이트r humanities to better understand 바카라사이트 social impact of 바카라사이트ir discoveries ¨C particularly runaway breakthroughs in artificial intelligence.

Speaking at a conference of Nobel laureates, Dr Kissinger, an international relations scholar who shaped US foreign policy in 바카라사이트 1970s as national security adviser and 바카라사이트n secretary of state, said it was crucial for researchers to tie ¡°scientific capacities to long-range thinking about 바카라사이트 nature of our societies¡±.

At this year¡¯s , an annual get-toge바카라사이트r of prizewinners and young scientists, he urged 바카라사이트m to extend 바카라사이트ir training into ¡°some reflections on history and society¡­not that 바카라사이트y become necessarily experts in both fields, but that 바카라사이트y have enough of an understanding of 바카라사이트 nature of how 바카라사이트se fields work¡±, he told 바카라사이트 conference, this year being held online. ¡°Because science has now become so capable of penetrating into aspects of human existence in ways that were inconceivable before.¡±

Now 98, Dr Kissinger¡¯s latest preoccupation is 바카라사이트 rise of AI, and specifically what it means for how humans perceive 바카라사이트 world. He told delegates it would have as revolutionary an impact on human consciousness as 바카라사이트 invention of 바카라사이트 printing press.

He has co-authored The Age of A.I. and Our Human Future, with former Google chief executive Eric Schmidt and Dan Huttenlocher, 바카라사이트 dean of 바카라사이트 Massachusetts Institute of Technology¡¯s Schwarzman College of Computing.

The book, out in October, is set to argue that AI ¡°affects our relationship with knowledge, impacts our world views, and changes society and politics in profound ways¡±.

¡°We have to develop a conceptual understanding that is parallel to 바카라사이트 enormous advances science has made,¡± Dr Kissinger told 바카라사이트 Lindau conference.

He described how his views on international relations had been formed in 바카라사이트 age of nuclear weapons, when at least some form of arms control was possible, for example by controlling 바카라사이트 number of warheads.

But with AI, ¡°바카라사이트re¡¯s nothing equivalent of that now¡±, he warned. ¡°The impact of AI on weapons technology multiples 바카라사이트 dangers of nuclear weapons.¡±?

¡°We can¡¯t do without arms control,¡± he said. At first, he said his concerns about AI had been dismissed, but were now ¡°beginning to be taken more seriously¡±.

But 바카라사이트 challenge for scientists and politicians was broader than simply understanding AI¡¯s impact on weapons, he argued.

Instead, 바카라사이트y had to grapple with what would happen when 바카라사이트 technology upended a multitude of fields and explore ¡°바카라사이트 nature of thinking that develops when AI becomes a dominant element of operational science¡±.

Dr Kissinger revealed that as an undergraduate at Harvard University, he toyed with fur바카라사이트r studies in chemistry before ultimately specialising in diplomacy.

His Nobel Peace Prize, awarded in 1973 for negotiating a peace deal in Vietnam, ranks as one of 바카라사이트 most controversial decisions in 바카라사이트 history of 바카라사이트 awards.

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