Forget AI ending humanity; what people are really worried about is AI taking their jobs — even if that's not…
The narrative that AI might end humanity in a decade has monopolized public discourse, so much so that we may be ignoring more prosaic, immediate AI concerns like jobs.
I'm neither an AI doomer nor a booster. I believe generative AI has tremendous potential, especially for helping us solve our most difficult problems, like cancer and maybe resources and climate change. I'm also a realist and know that AI development and growth are clearly outstripping our ability to properly manage it.
We should never have a situation where we do not know how or why an AI did something. The Hugging Face incident should be a call to action. In lieu of regulation (which the White House will block), self-regulation with third-party oversight is in order.
The reality, though, is that AI development is unlikely to slow down or stop. The consequences will keep coming, and people have feelings.
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