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Our Oppenheimer moment: The creation of AI weapons
This is an arms race of a different kind, which has already begun, and the US should not shy away from it, says Palantir’s CEO.
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We must not shy away from building sharp tools for fear they may be turned against us, says the writer.
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Alexander C. Karp
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In 1942, J. Robert Oppenheimer, the son of a painter and a textile importer, was appointed to lead Project Y, the military effort established by the Manhattan Project to develop nuclear weapons. Oppenheimer and his colleagues worked in secret at a remote laboratory in New Mexico to discover methods for purifying uranium and ultimately to design and build working atomic bombs.
He had a bias towards action and inquiry.
