Marissa Mayer: Anyone who says they know how AI will play out is ‘either lying or arrogant or both’
Source: Fortune ·
The former Yahoo CEO, who just launched AI assistant startup Dazzle AI, says the odds still favor an AI future that’s good for science, creativity and busy parents.
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Marissa Mayer has been a builder in Silicon Valley since the dawn of Google. But even she says the honest answer about where AI is headed is that nobody knows. “We have a new form of intelligence, and anyone who says they know how this is going to play out is either lying or arrogant or both,” Mayer told Fortune executive editorial director Diane Brady on stage at the annual Most Powerful Women Summit in California, when asked about the debate raging over the frontier AI labs. The uncertainty cuts both ways, said Mayer. “We have to acknowledge that there is a possibility that things won’t go well,” she said. But Mayer put the odds of a negative outcome at “well less than 50%,” noting that even some AI doomers would agree with her. “What that really means is the odds are in our favor,” she said, pointing to potential medical and science breakthroughs and “freeing people up to spend their time and live their lives the way they want to.” She admitted to being an optimist, but welcomed…