There’s a lot of doomsday chatter about artificial intelligence lately.
If you’re a podcast listener, you’ve undoubtedly heard an episode about the looming A.I. apocalypse on every podcast you listen to. I’ve lost count of the number of episodes Ezra Klein has done on the subject (literally). His arch nemesis, Sam Harris, has also done quite a few.
Jordan Peterson has covered it.
Joe Rogan has covered it.
The framing is always the same: A.I. is becoming dangerously complicated as rapid technological progress threatens to undermine our culture, steal our jobs, and — in the worst-case scenario — poses an existential threat to humanity.
It’s been on everybody’s minds since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 and 4.
In May, an ex-Google pioneer in the field of artificial made headlines when he quit the tech behemoth and warned the public about the dangers of the power of the artificial intelligence technologies being developed right now.