"I've been seeing and hearing far too many expressions of hopelessness and fear about where the age of artificial intelligence is taking us. A broad swath of the population, including business, political, and educational leaders, is making decisions based on the assumption that outsourcing our thinking, writing, and creating to AI is the irreversible course that has already been set."
"Florida Governor Ron DeSantis lamented, "It is inevitable that AI will be used to promote various agendas and to expand power for those who are devising it." China's Premier Li Qiang observed, "AI is everywhere, it seems omnipotent." And British-Canadian computer scientist Geoffrey Hinton has bluntly asserted, "There's going to be things we do and the superintelligences just get fed up with the fact that we're so incompetent and just replace us.""
"I'm puzzled by this confidence. Because nothing is inevitable. Not the doom scenario of superintelligent robots taking over the world. And not the hype scenario of a coming utopia born of eternal improvements in every conceivable type of technology. The premise of inevitability is one we need to mindfully reject."
Many leaders express hopelessness and fear about AI's trajectory and assume outsourcing thinking, writing, and creativity to AI is irreversible. Prominent figures voice inevitability and alarm about AI's power and potential to expand influence. Nothing is inevitable: neither a superintelligent takeover nor a technological utopia is predetermined. The premise of inevitability should be rejected. Major corporations are directing resources toward replacing human decision-making and making generative AI ubiquitous, a strategy that warrants challenge. Active human agency, attention to social constraints, and artful thinking can disrupt prediction, quantification, and social engineering driven by AI.
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