Joe Biden’s Concern About AI Grew After Watching ‘Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning’
deadline.comMission Impossible: Dead Reckoning Part One is being cited as one of the main reasons that President Joe Biden became even more worried about the effects of artificial intelligence.
According to Deputy White House Chief of Staff Bruce Reed, he and Biden watched the movie one weekend at Camp David. “If he hadn’t already been concerned about what could go wrong with AI before that movie, he saw plenty more to worry about,” Reed told the Associated Press.
The Tom Cruise film’s villain is a sentient and rogue AI known as “the Entity” that sinks a submarine and kills its crew in the movie’s opening minutes.
Biden already had been concerned after seeing AI deepfakes of himself. In his remarks on Monday at the signing of an executive order to establish guardrails around the fast-emerging technology, Biden said, “I watched one of me, ‘When the hell did I say that?’, he joked. “But all kidding aside, a three-second recording of your voice to generate an impersonation good enough to fool your family — or you.
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