“I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think? I believe that at the end of the century the use of words and general educated opinion will have altered so much that one will be able to speak of machines thinking without expecting to be contradicted.”

Alan Mathison Turing (1912-1954)

Computing Machinery and Intelligence, October 1950

In a pivotal moment for the AI industry, Open AI CEO Sam Altman sat before a U.S. Senate panel on May 17 and expressed concerns that artificial intelligence has the potential to disrupt democracy, national security and the economy, and shockingly suggested that government regulation is needed.

Perhaps Alan Turing in 1950 was on to something.

Source: Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations