Yesterday I wrote about concerns from economists that the quick adoption of AI might mean a significant disruption of the job market. There seemed to be a wary realization that AI was probably going to do away with some jobs permanently but whether that change would necessarily create a crisis in the marketplace depended on how fast the change happened. If it took ten years, they the economy would adjust. If it took half that, we might have a problem.
Today, Axios has a story highlighting concerns coming not from economists but from people inside the AI industry, several of whom have recently expressed serious concern about how fast things were moving.
His letter reads in part, “The world is in peril. And not just from AI or bioweapons but from a whole series of interconnected crises unfolding in this very moment.” In a footnote he mentions that some people are calling it the “poly-crisis.”
Another researcher at OpenAI also expressed some concern about where things were heading as AI became more competent.
Hellbound and Down 