@Dan_Jeffries1
In my latest article, "If We Build It, Everyone Lives," (https://t.co/OEkx9Juu0W) I walk through the many ways AI is helping the world already and why Doomer fears have a a 0% success rate and yet they keep getting press. They move the chains and promise us that this time they'll be right and we'll all be very sorry real soon, just you wait. If their crazy policy suggestions get passed, like the MIRI report (https://t.co/BXRosrNsKp) that calls for mass government surveillance of AI researchers and restricting GPUs like they're AK-47s, they will do real, lasting, nasty damage that's infinitely worse than the thing they're supposed to stop or prevent. That's because when activists push big, scary headlines about the bad things they predict a technology will bring, a silent spring (https://t.co/aifHo06jOr), mass unemployment, a new ice age (https://t.co/CHDTFrWsuu), they usually dead wrong and they almost always ignore the good things we stand to lose without the technology: the jobs that never get created, the clean air we don’t breathe, the cascade of new inventions that never come to be. Their fears mask the miracles already happening every day. AI is already unleashing a torrent of potential breakthroughs from fighting malaria (https://t.co/3yWbk0paDV), to battling Parkinson's, to enzymes that munch plastic to discovering new batteries and much more. We seem to resent progress today, to think that economics is a zero sum game where when we make things more efficient everyone gets poorer when it works in the exact opposite way. It's a belief echoed by AI pioneer and socialist turned doomer, Geoffrey Hinton, who recently told the Financial Times (https://t.co/vfj40Zmd1T) "AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer." He also said a decade ago that radiologists will be made obsolete by AI but we have widespread adoption of AI by radiologists instead and more radiologists than ever so I wouldn’t give his predictive powers much credibility at all. More than likely, AI isn't a replacement for human intelligence; it's an amplifier, a co-intelligence. People who embrace AI and work closely with it will displace people who refuse to work with it. Film editors who refused to switch to digital editing don't have a job anymore but there are more editing jobs than ever. That's because making films got easier with digital tools and that meant more films, which meant more jobs. Give people power tools and they are remarkably adaptable with them. It's the beginning of a great co-creation, a partnership between human and machine that will unlock unprecedented levels of creativity and productivity. AI is a general purpose technology. It's not a sentient being with its own desires. It’s a tool. It's a mirror that reflects our own ingenuity, our own compassion, our own desire to build a better world. To fear it is to fear ourselves. To demand we stop building is to demand we stop dreaming, stop striving, and stop reaching for a better future. The future is not a predetermined path to destruction. It's a landscape of infinite possibility, and we are the architects. We can choose to be guided by fear, to huddle in the dark and curse the light, or we can choose to build. We can choose to use these incredible new tools to solve the oldest of human problems: disease, poverty, and ignorance. So let the doomers have their bleak fantasies. Let them wallow in their apocalyptic predictions. We have work to do. We have a world to build. And in the world we’re building, AI isn’t the end of humanity. It’s the beginning of a new chapter, one where we are healthier, smarter, and more capable than ever before. If we build it, everyone lives. And we are building it, right now.
