Craig Mundie is a former chief technical officer at Microsoft who spent years working on the policy questions raised by new technologies, especially artificial intelligence.
Mundie talks to Business Insider about what makes modern AI fundamentally different from traditional computing, why today's systems can feel "intelligent," and what that means for trust.
He lays out where AI could improve lives fastest, especially in healthcare and education, while also warning about how the technology could be used in harmful ways, such as for propaganda and cyber warfare.
Mundie says governance is now the central challenge: Countries may either converge on shared "architectures of trust" for AI or drift toward a more fragmented world where systems are walled off.
He suggests that, ultimately, AI may be required to help govern itself.
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