AI agents may soon be massed to invade social media, mimicking humans and spreading false stories, bullying and harassing users, and undermining belief in democracy and free society, a 22 January commentary in Science magazine from the BI Norwegian Business School warned.
An AI price war might be in the offing, a war that could shoot holes in major AI companies’ stock valuations.
Investors have sunk the market values of AI-related companies in recent weeks, worried that the technology isn’t producing bottom-line gains for businesse
In a new $30-billion funding round, investments from backers including Lightspeed Venture Partners, Microsoft, Nvidia, and Sequoia Capital have set the AI developer Anthropic’s value at $350 billion and put it on track for what is expected to be a wildly successful initial public stock offering later this year.
“Today I finally feel the existential threat that AI is posing,” Hieu Pham, an OpenAI developer, wrote in an 11 February post on X. “When AI becomes overly good and disrupts everything, what will be left for humans to do?”