Summary: Yes, you should be worried about AI – but Matrix analogies hide a more insidious threat | Samantha Floreani
Rather than fretting over some far-flung fear of an “existential threat” to humanity, we should be concerned about the material consequences of far less sophisticated AI technologies that are affecting people’s lives right now.
We need not wait for some hypothetical tech-bro delusion to consider – and fight – the harms of AI.
And lately: should I be worried that AI is going to take over and kill us all?
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As for generative AI, we are already seeing the kinds of harms that can arise, in far more prosaic ways than it becoming sentient and deciding to end humanity.
There is so much hype around artificial intelligence that the concern is understandable but it’s important that we hang on to our critical faculties.
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