This is GPS, the global public square. Welcome to all of you in the United States and

around the world. I'm Farid Zakaria. Today, a GPS special. Artificial intelligence,

its promise and peril. We'll bring you an in-depth look at the brave and frightening

new world that faces us all today. It's nice to meet you.

Startling powers of this technology exploded into the public consciousness late last year.

ChatGPT has basically exploded in popularity. Machines that can teach themselves superhuman

skills. If this technology goes wrong, it can go quite wrong. ChatGPT. We start with a

look at the past, the present, and the unknown future of artificial intelligence with

Eric Schmidt, the former CEO and Chair of Google, who has long been interested in AI.

So what happens if it can build a pathogen, and it ends up in the hands of an Osama Bin Laden

type of person, and that pathogen can kill a million people?

Then the absolute worst case scenario. AI run amok. The extinction of us all. The human race

that is. I'll talk to a man known as the godfather of AI who left a top job in tech so he could

warn us of the risks. And then the support move, if these things get smarter than us,

which I believe they will, then the question is, will we be able to keep control?

On the flip side, the beauty of what AI can help humans create. James Cameron made his AI

inspired terminator films long before artificial intelligence became a buzzword.

Now he uses AI to make his new productions ever better. He'll explain how it all works.

We're taking an actor's performance and translating it onto a CG character, and we want it to be

as accurate as possible. But I think where it's going really feeds into one of our greatest

social rules right now, which is that we can't trust what we see.

Then an unusual, fascinating application of AI. I've been mesmerized by a piece of artificial

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