“Humans are no longer the most intelligent beings on the planet, or soon will not be,” he said. Noah Smith in free press. Artificial intelligence has advanced rapidly over the past year, surpassing human intelligence in performing almost every task. This is the thesis of a recent viral essay by Matt Schumer, CEO of AI company OthersideAI. Shumer said the latest AI versions of Claude and ChatGPT (available only through a paid subscription) are a huge advancement and can be given complex assignments such as creating apps. AI writes all the code, creates, tests, and improves apps much faster than humans. Schumer has warned that half of white-collar jobs could be replaced by AI within five years. Critics call Mr. Schumer an alarmist, but I suspect he is “underestimating the pace and scale of the changes that are occurring.” Like the Native Americans who saw sailing ships preying on European settlers on their shores, we are faced with a “greater and more powerful force” than ourselves. We may soon lose control of our destiny “forever.”
AI will certainly have a major disruptive impact on employment, he said. James Peskoukis in vox. However, decisions on energy capacity and the regulation, development and deployment of AI will “proceed at normal speed”. Approximately 80% of U.S. companies do not currently use AI, and they will not transition to a high degree of reliance overnight. Over time, the economy will adapt and shift jobs to practical human jobs that AI is weak at, such as healthcare, education, and creative jobs. While some “urgency may be justified,” Schumer’s “AI apocalypse warning” about rapid job disappearance is overly pessimistic.
Still, what if “the fateful people are right”? asked philip klein in national review. If AI advances so rapidly that millions of highly educated, well-paid, white-collar workers are not only unemployed, but unemployable, “it will be more politically destabilizing than anything we have seen before.” In the worst-case scenario, “elite anger” could merge with populism, sparking “revolutionary fervor that spreads throughout the country and brings down the republic.” But remember: “We decide how we use technology,” he said. Jonathan V. Last in bulwark. We need to “create rules governing how industry uses AI,” just as we regulate many other initiatives, before it’s too late. Just because OpenAI builds a dystopian future doesn’t mean we have to live in a dystopian future.
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