I’m a bit of an AI skeptic and find the way people talk vaguely about the “dangers” of AI weird and maybe just more hype (or efforts for regulatory capture) rather than actual cause for concern.
Still, to me, it seems like the two big scary things that might fall out of recent developments in generative AI are:
1. It might vacuum up an enormous number of jobs very quickly; enough jobs and quickly enough to cause serious social unrest.
2. The ability to generate convincing fake videos of basically anything might catastrophically erode our sense of truth or reality.
Both of these strike me as plausible concerns in the near future (arguably they’re already happening). Not really sure what we could do about them, though - the cat is kind of out of the bag.
Still, to me, it seems like the two big scary things that might fall out of recent developments in generative AI are:
1. It might vacuum up an enormous number of jobs very quickly; enough jobs and quickly enough to cause serious social unrest.
2. The ability to generate convincing fake videos of basically anything might catastrophically erode our sense of truth or reality.
Both of these strike me as plausible concerns in the near future (arguably they’re already happening). Not really sure what we could do about them, though - the cat is kind of out of the bag.