Generative large language models raise claims of existential risk, including the possibility of mass human extinction. The technology already leads to job losses and redundancies for hundreds and thousands of workers, though one Goldman Sachs report suggests long-term productivity gains could offset those losses. Artists, academics, and other intellectual property creators report increased plagiarism risk and diminished research integrity as hallucinations produce incorrect results and fabricated citations. Environmental footprint concerns grow amid climate change and water scarcity. Large AI investment supports the American economy and can add personal productivity and help people find work.
For hundreds and thousands, job losses and redundancies caused by the adoption of this technology by businesses are lived reality (but, long term, according to one Goldman Sachs report, productivity gains will create growth that will offset these losses). Finally, artists, academics and other intellectual property creators claim that the technology encourages plagiarism and devalues the integrity of research methods (hallucinations in this technology can lead to incorrect search results; an example being t he invention of legal citations).
Some experts claim that the technology could lead to the mass extinction of the human race. It is certainly not all doom and gloom. If gigantic AI investment wasn't buoying the American economy, the tent-pole of the global trading system, one wonders what the headline statistical figures would look like. I have to admit that AI has added productivity to my workflows, helped me find work...
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