. “It’s pretty dark and alarming,” Yale professor Jeffrey Sonnenfeld said in a phone interview, referring to the findings. The survey, conducted at a virtual event held by Sonnenfeld’s Chief Executive Leadership Institute, found little consensus about the risks and opportunities linked to AI.
” Hinton told CNN that if AI “gets to be much smarter than us, it will be very good at manipulation,” including “getting around restrictions we put on it.” While business leaders debate the dangers of AI, the CEOs surveyed by Yale displayed a degree of agreement about the rewards. Just 13% of the CEOs said the potential opportunity of AI is overstated, while 87% said it is not.