At an Air Force Academy commencement address earlier this month, President Biden issued his most direct warning to date about the power of artificial intelligence, predicting that the technology could “overtake human thinking” in the not-so-distant future.

“It’s not going to be easy,” Biden said, citing a recent Oval Office meeting with “eight leading scientists in the area of AI.”

“We’ve got a lot to deal with,” he continued. “An incredible opportunity, but a lot [to] deal with.”

To any civilian who has toyed around with OpenAI’s ChatGPT-4 — or Microsoft’s Bing, or Google’s Bard — the president’s stark forecast probably sounded more like science fiction than actual science.

Sure, the latest round of generative AI chatbots are neat, a skeptic might say. They can help you plan a family vacation, rehearse challenging real-life conversations, summarize dense academic papers and “explain fractional reserve banking at a high school level.”

But “overtake human thinking”? That’s a leap.

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