The saying is that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and making AI ingredients and activities more apparent and understandable would let us debate them more actively and thoughtfully. Otherwise, AI will continue to find its way into the darkened rooms our our lives, unseen and unaddressed until we turn on the lights and realize it’s too late to stop the infestation.
We have been led into a dead-end debate between two opinions of AI that don’t exist much beyond the machinations of people who have something to gain from casting the debate in such terms.
Maybe the shape won’t be a brooch, but incorporating AI and its commensurate surveillance and active control into the everyday fabric of our lives is the ultimate wet dream for tech.
Maybe we all deserve a day off. One day each week to step back, slow down, and stop the buzz of endless tasks that otherwise constitute our every waking…or operating…moment.
Companies have been using tech to improve their performance for centuries and there’s nothing intrinsically wrong with automating processes and services. But there are some “big” questions about AI that Taco Bell’s owners are challenging us to ask.
The EU’s Artificial Intelligence Act will only help ensure that the robot takeover is unstoppable. But thank goodness it will be orderly.
AI challenges our most basic assumptions about our rights as citizens, not to mention our rights as human beings
We’ve have been enlisted as subjects in this grand experiment. We aren’t informed about what’s happening, don’t possess the knowledge to understand or assess it, and haven’t an ounce of agency to do something about it.
Why spend hours sitting with a group of people debating some arcane aspect of life when GPT-4 can summarize the conversation and provide a conclusion for you?
OpenAI’s research is just another entry into the corpus of blather intended to make us think that they care about ethics and safety as they (and other tech firms) madly race to develop more powerful and therefore more threatening AI.