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May 4, 2024 local timeNodepositpokerAt Berkshire Hathaway's annual shareholders' meeting, Warren Warren Buffett said artificial intelligence (AI) fraud could be the next big "growth industry" and compared the technology to nuclear weapons because it could make a big difference.
Buffett, known as the "Prophet of Omaha," said he knew "nothing" about AI, but he recently saw an image of himself generated by artificial intelligence on the screen, making it difficult for him to tell the true from the false, which made him nervous about the technology.
Buffett told investors at Berkshire's annual meeting: "when you think about the possibility of deceiving others, if you can create an image that even I can't tell the truth from the false, for example, someone exactly like your daughter says to you,'I need money, I just had a car accident, I need $50,000.' I mean, fraud has always been a common sight in the United States, but if I am interested in investing in the fraud industry, AI technology will make it the most growing industry ever. "
Buffett said: "I said that when we developed nuclear weapons, we released the devil from the bottle, the devil has been doing some terrible things recently, you know, the power of that devil scares me," he added, "and I don't know any way to put the devil back in the bottle. Artificial intelligence is kind of similar."