Any industry that could get away with stealing massive amounts of other people’s property, and wasn’t bound by regulations not to develop and distribute unprecedented, disturbingly powerful and dangerous technology, would probably enjoy some success…up to a point.
Yes, the daily news headlines provide a distorted sense of what’s going wrong “around the corner and around the world,” to quote faux newsman Ted Baxter from a classic (“Not a Christmas Story”) episode of The Mary Tyler Moore Show.
Newly uncovered communications hacking by Chinese actors, a European fishing expedition spying on millions of messages users thought were encrypted, and new warnings from the American government regarding encrypted apps, all point to tech privacy wars heating up.
Tech giants, and increasingly businesses leveraging AI, robotics and related automation technologies, are admitting the scale of worker obsolescence that’s coming.
Gene edited ingredients have spread so widely over the past two years, that it’s almost impossible at this point for average Americans to avoid consuming them.
If current trajectories don’t change, it will only be a matter a few years until AI will make individual human autonomy obsolete. Whether by choice or mandate, everyone will be pervasively connected to AI.
Young workers have already embraced AI in startling numbers to get work done and make their lives easier.
“If we create entities that are smarter than us and have their own goals, what does that mean for humanity? Are we in danger?”
Sam Altman of OpenAI was all over the news this past week, which is not unusual these days.
A new research paper featured in Nature Human Behavior says a novel cognitive mode for humans is emerging, due to AI technology.