At a recent summit hosted by Axios, former Google CEO and current chair of the U.S. National Artificial Intelligence Safety Commission, Eric Schmidt, issued a severe warning about the future of artificial intelligence (AI). Schmidt pointed out that as AI technology advances rapidly, the world may not be prepared to handle the potential dangers that these innovations could bring. Note: The image was generated by AI and is licensed from the service provider Midjourney. Schmidt likened the development of AI to atomic bombs during World War II.