Opportunities and threats
On February 22, 1946, George Kennan, an American diplomat in Moscow, sent a 5,000-word telegram to Washington. Kennan warned in it that the Soviet Union, due to the very premises of communism, is expansionist, and he urged the US government to resist any attempts by the Soviets to increase their influence. This strategy quickly became known as the “policy of containment” or “Truman Doctrine” – and it defined American foreign policy for the subsequent 40 years.
This doctrine doesn’t apply only to politics. Mustafa Suleyman, author of The Coming Wave and one of the most experienced and distinguished practitioners of artificial intelligence (currently the head of AI at Microsoft, formerly co-founder of DeepMind, a company acquired by Google), and Michael Bhaskar, writer and publisher, suggest that it also be applied to AI.