"We Have to Assume That the Internet Will Go Offline in the Next Few Years"
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI, warns that the rapid advancement of AI models poses significant cybersecurity risks, suggesting the internet could become unstable within years. He highlights the concentration of power in AI and the potential for frontier models to be used as sophisticated hacking tools.
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It highlights growing concerns among industry leaders regarding the dual-use nature of frontier AI models and their potential to destabilize global digital infrastructure.
Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now CEO of Intelligent Internet, with Dominic-Madori Davis (Techcrunch). © Trending Topics Set Trending Topics as a preferred source on Google.
He was once seen as one of the leading minds in AI development, today he is one of its major critics: On stage at the startup conference TechBBQ in Copenhagen, Emad Mostaque, founder of Stability AI and now CEO of Intelligent Internet, sketched a picture of the coming years that swings between technological optimism and very concrete warnings. A former global macro hedge fund manager with a mathematics and computer science degree from Oxford, Mostaque led the creation of Stable Diffusion at Stability AI and left the company saying that concentration of power in AI is bad . His current venture, Intelligent Internet, is building an open agentic stack for sovereign AI, and he is the author of The Last Economy .
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