The Inconvenient Truth About AI and Jobs
« You won’t lose your job to AI, you’ll lose your job to someone using AI. »
This is another recurring idea in the public discourse. I don’t like it. I think it instills fear by stressing the idea of scarcity (jobs will be lost) and asking people to compete for the now scarce resource (learn AI or suffer).
I prefer a more benevolent stance, even th
... See moreHumanity is waking up to the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence, but we don’t yet understand our role. People talk about unexplainable AI when they should be more concerned about the unexplainable humans running the companies that develop the AI. (Hiya, Sam!) People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are comp... See more
Esther Dyson • Don’t Fuss About Training AIs. Train Our Kids
Of course, there are major ethical issues to work out—leaps forward in technology often walk a fine line between deeply-impactful and dystopian. Among the questions we need to figure out:
- Who is responsible for AI’s mistakes?
- Who is the creator of an AI work? Is it the AI? The developers? The person who wrote the prompt? The people whose work was use
Rex Woodbury • AI in 2023: The Application Layer Has Arrived
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve
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People worried about AI taking their jobs and taking control are competing with a myth. Instead, people should train themselves to be better humans even as they develop better AI. People are still in control, but they need to use that control wisely, ethically and carefully.