AI is a powerful tool. Whether you use ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini or any other model, you can accomplish a lot with AI. But it comes with many concerns, not the least of which is the idea of AI going rogue. Plus, data centers create environmental issues.
For all the good AI can do (and has already done), it could also cause terrible things. And according to OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in an interview with Decoded by POLITICO, "the world should accept some bad things happening" as a result of AI. Maybe that's easy enough to accept as the CEO of one of the world's largest AI companies, but for me, a writer whose livelihood is constantly under threat of being stolen by AI, it's a little harder to shrug off.
And job loss could be minor compared with other risks AI experts suggest. According to MIT's AI Risk Initiative, "18 of 24 risks have more than a 10% chance of causing catastrophic outcomes." Those risks "could include more than one million deaths, more than $100 billion in financial losses, or other harms."
Yeah, we should probably just accept those so we can shave some time off our workflows each day.
The full quote from Sam Altman is: “I think there’s a lot of daylight. We believe that the world should accept some bad things happening for the benefits of this technology and people having the agency.”
"People will do tremendously — orders of magnitude more — good stuff than bad stuff.”
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