ASCI Connect

The linked ABC article raises many questions. 

AI is an ethical, social and economic nightmare and we're starting to wake up

It struck me what Sam Altman said in a recent podcast (see extract from ABC article pasted below). And if AIdevelopers are now working towards AGI (artificial general intelligence) or ASI (artificial superintelligence), meaning an AI that makes its own decisions, where does that leave us humans? Who will provide oversight and governance, who defines the guardrails? Many questions loom and - so it seems - no one really has the answers (yet). Looking forward to your thoughts and insights, how do you think you and/or your company/org will deal with these challenges?

"Guesswork with consequences

Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, the owner of ChatGPT, the most popular AI tool at this point, was asked in another podcast recently how people and society will survive without work.

He answered: "I don't know, neither does anybody else. But I'll tell you my current best guess … well, two guesses."

First, he thought, maybe everybody gets ChatGPT for free and "everybody has access to just this like crazy thing, such that everybody can be more productive and make way more money".

Second: "There's another version of this where the most important things that are happening are these systems are discovering new cures for diseases, new kinds of energy, new ways to make spaceships, whatever, and most of that value is accruing to the, like, cluster owners - us, just so that I'm not dodging the question here - and then I think society will very quickly say, OK, we gotta have some new economic model where we share that and distribute that to people".

In other words, the leading AI person hasn't got a clue about the harm of what he's doing, he's guessing, while acknowledging that it's going to require a mysterious new economic model."