Eric Schmidt

These conversations are occurring around nuclear opponents today in our world.

There are legitimate people saying the only solution to this problem is preemption.

Now, I just told you that you, Mr. Good, are about to have the keys to control the entire world, both in terms of economic dominance, innovation, surveillance, whatever it is that you care about.

I have to prevent that.

We don't have any language in our society, the foreign policy people have not thought about this, and this is coming.

When is it coming?

Probably five years.

We have time.

We have time for this conversation.

And this is really important.

This is one of the wickedest or we call them wicked hard problems.

Our industry, our science, everything about the world that we have built is based on academic research, open source, so forth.

Much of Google's technology was based on open source.

Some of Google's technology is open source, some of it is proprietary, perfectly legitimate.

What happens when there's an open-source model that is really dangerous and it gets into the hands of the Osama bin Ladens of the world?

And we know there are more than one, unfortunately.

We don't know.

The consensus in the industry right now is the open-source models are not quite at the point of national or global danger.

But you can see a pattern where they might get there.

So a lot will now depend upon the key decisions made in the US and China and in the companies in both places.