Are AI Machines Making Humans Obsolete?
This is an incremental discussion paper on the societal implications of generative AI for policymakers and researchers.
This chapter examines the impacts of generative AI, discussing its opportunities and the challenges and dangers it poses, including dystopian outcomes from uncontrolled machine learning and our failure to understand results, concluding with suggestions for controlling GenAI and addressing its dangers.
This chapter starts with a sketch of how we got to "generative AI" (GenAI) and a brief summary of the various impacts it had so far. It then discusses some of the opportunities of GenAI, followed by the challenges and dangers, including dystopian outcomes resulting from using uncontrolled machine learning and our failures to understand the results. It concludes with some suggestions for how to control GenAI and address its dangers.