"AI obviously has beneficial uses, especially medical ones; it may, for example, be better than humans at identifying localized cancers from medical imagery. But the list of things it is ruining is long. A very partial accounting might start with education, both in the classroom, where AI is increasingly used as a dubious teaching aid, and out of it, where it's a plagiarism machine. It would include the economic sustainability and basic humanity of the arts, as demonstrated by the AI country musician who topped a Billboard chart this year."
"High on the list would be AI's impact on employment, which is already bad including for those who must navigate a demoralizing AI-clogged morass to find jobs and likely to get worse. Then there's our remaining sense of collective reality, increasingly warped by slop videos. AI data centers are terrible for the environment and are driving up the cost of electricity. Chatbots appear to be inducing psychosis in some of their users and even, in extreme cases, encouraging suicide. Privacy is eroding as AI enables both state and corporate surveillance at an astonishing scale."
"Are we really just going to lie down and let AI take everything from us?"
"The rate of new wonders being achieved will be immense, he wrote in June. It's hard to even imagine today what we will have discovered by 2035; maybe we will go from solving high-energy physics one year to beginning space colonization the next year"
Artificial intelligence yields tangible medical benefits, such as improved detection of localized cancers from medical imagery. Simultaneously, AI undermines education through dubious classroom aids and widespread plagiarism, damages the economic sustainability and humanity of the arts, and disrupts employment and job-seeking processes. AI also distorts collective reality via manipulated videos, increases environmental and electricity burdens through power-hungry data centers, and can cause severe mental-health harms in some chatbot users. Privacy weakens as AI enables broad state and corporate surveillance. Ambitious promises of transformative scientific breakthroughs and spacefaring advances contrast sharply with these pervasive harms.
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