{"id":839409,"date":"2026-08-02T08:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839409\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:06:08","slug":"nobel-laureate-brian-schmidt-warns-dumb-ai-is-about-to-disrupt-society-over-next-five-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/839409\/","title":{"rendered":"Nobel laureate Brian Schmidt warns \u2018dumb AI\u2019 is about to disrupt society over next five years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Artificial intelligence doesn\u2019t have to be ultra-smart or conscious to radically change the world \u2013 just 100,000 cheap drones mounted with guns and basic targeting software.<\/p>\n<p>That is the blunt warning from Nobel laureate Professor Brian Schmidt, who says society is vastly underestimating how radically even \u201cdumb\u201d artificial intelligence will disrupt the world over the next five years.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Artificial intelligence doesn\u2019t have to be ultra-smart or conscious to radically change the world \u2013 just 100,000 cheap&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":839410,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[256,254,255,64,63,105],"class_list":["post-839409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=839409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/839409\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/839410"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=839409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=839409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=839409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}