The Real Economic Problem Of AI Isn't Tech But People

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With all the discussion and coverage of artificial intelligence, one might think the data, the understanding, the concerns were all understood and available to all. The conclusions are all contradictory.

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25 Sep 2023

With all the discussion and coverage of artificial intelligence, one might think the data, the understanding, the concerns were all understood and available to all. The conclusions are all contradictory. AI will usher in an era of prosperity and freedom of all. Or it will destroy humanity — or at least make the wealthy even wealthier while putting hundreds of millions out of work. But they are all absolute, like this opening to a Wired article about OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT:

“What OpenAI Really Wants: The young company sent shock waves around the world when it released ChatGPT. But that was just the start. The ultimate goal: Change everything. Yes. Everything.”

Emphasis in the original. The good, the bad, the extremely stated. Last year, Ilya Sutskever, chief scientist of OpenAI, wrote on Twitter/X, “it may be that today's large neural