Billionaire Ray Dalio cautioned investors in a recent podcast interview with Tucker Carlson saying that the development of artificial intelligence could risk totalitarian social control or even anarchy in the coming years.

Highlighting the unpredictability in the direction of AI's growth, Dalio anticipated a radically different world over the next five years.

What Happened: Dalio recently appeared on a podcast with Carlson on the latter's YouTube channel discussing the trends in the U.S. economy, debt crisis, stock market, and AI.

Discussing the various possibilities of using AI at a "molecular level," from solving medical issues to problems like inflation within an economy, Dalio said that AI was a "two-edged sword". The future could be shaped depending on who has access to and control of such AI tools, he said.

When asked if there was a way to avoid totalitarian social control through AI, Dalio said, "I think there’s a question of whether you can have social and totalitarian controls or maybe you just have anarchy."

Dalio believes that humanity will undergo an AI technology-induced "time warp," which will radically change the world in the next five years. He also added that quantum computing will be another innovation to look at.

"So the world five years from now is going to be a radically different world. And I don’t know what that’s going to look like when you go into the world of quantum computing and what quantum is like in so many different ways. It raises questions of, you know, what is that like?" said Dalio.

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