Las Vegas News TV Part 1: Chris Wright on AI Trust, Future Risk and AI Job Replacement

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My name is Miller, your host here at Las Vegas News, and I'm here with Chris Wright, the CEO and founder of the AIT TC. C, which is the AI Trust Council. Welcome, Chris.
Thank you. So, yeah. So, so happy to be here. Yes. Yeah. Pleasure.
We're happy to have you here because AI is the hot topic, of course. And so, uh, I know that you you came from a military background. So, I'm going to ask you about how you made the jump to AI, but first I want to know like how do you see AI being used ethically and reasonably here in this world?
Well, I I think the reality is um you know right now that it it really isn't. And um and that's one of the things for my mil military background that I saw is uh you know back in around 2019 I started to see drone warfare come in and I actually started to see AI applications being used in warfare uh things like that. My background is military aviation. Used to fly attack helicopters for a number of years for the US military and then worked as a contractor in the Middle East working for the uh UAE military and also Saudi military
in uh in teaching students how to fly helicopters, uh ground instructor and also simulator operator. But one of the key things that we did was help them shoot down drones or at least train them how to shoot down drones. And uh and so you can so early on I could start to see that the power dynamics of warfare were changing and and the ability to project power autonomously where um a leader can basically uh program a fleet of drones and project power anywhere in the world. And uh and so
how big a role does AI play in that drone warfare?
Uh it's huge. It's huge. Uh so right now you've got drone systems that are thousands of drones that are hive mind linked together and uh and and they're they're able to be launched and and ultimately take out human targets by by algorithms. So
you said hive mind linked together.
Yeah.
Oh
yeah. So so you know so it's like you know all the devices will speak to you know talk to each other uh as soon as one learns something they'll pick up information and uh and share it with the rest. And so if there's techniques or things that they're seeing, they can they can share that vulnerability and and use it for targeting. And uh so it's it's really like a Terminator kind of environment that's that's growing right now. And so so you see this power dynamic in the world where you see you know Russia and China and then also these other countries all racing to to develop these these drone systems and u which which gives leaders a huge capacity to wage war uh with you know little impact to the actual human soldiers.
So it's the contemporary version of a power struggle on steroids.
Exactly. Yeah. Exactly.
And u Yeah. So, so it's u so it's a critical time that we uh pay attention to u world peace and and and the power dynamics in the world. And so uh so right now uh on the consumer side we're dealing with more of a um kind of a cyber warfare or kind of critical infrastructure risk with AI things like that. But uh but yeah, the the world dynamic has has has shifted and and so we're the humans that get to get to live here during this time and it and it's it's a special time that no human has ever lived through before. And so we're kind of making up this future on our own. And so what what's critical is what we need are people who are have a heart for humanity and want to see peace and and want to see positive outcomes from the use of the technology. And uh and so that's that's one of the missions that we're working on with the AI trust council. We're trying to um adv advocate for responsible use for AI
and how do we actually implement those those ethical standards?