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Artificial intelligence annihilating humanity was once the stuff of science fiction blockbusters. More recently, billionaires, congressmen, and vast sections of the public have expressed genuine concern about it.

However, Aidan Gomez, cofounder and CEO of Cohere, a hot A.I. startup recently sponsored by database giant Oracle and chipmaker Nvidia, believes such concerns are exaggerated. Worse, they’re diverting our attention away from the “real risks associated with this technology,” he warned in a Financial Times interview published Thursday.

Oracle said this week that it will employ Cohere’s technology to enable its commercial customers to create their generative AI apps. Cohere is to Oracle what OpenAI is to Microsoft, with each firm obtaining substantial funding from their Big Tech partners, who then use their A.I. technologies. The distinction is that Cohere is built for corporate users who wish to train A.I. models on their data without sharing it, whereas OpenAI has trained its buzzy A.I. chatbots ChatGPT and GPT-4 using more widely available data.

Gomez, a former researcher at Google Brain, one of Google’s A.I. divisions, sharply criticized an open letter signed in March by tech luminaries, including Tesla CEO Elon Musk and Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, calling for a six-month moratorium on the development of A.I. systems more advanced than GPT-4 to allow policymakers to catch up. Aside from being “not plausibly implementable,” Gomez told the FT, the letter discussed “the emergence of a superintelligent artificial general intelligence (AGI) that can take over,” a scenario he deems extremely unlikely.

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