"The big stuff we should have been sweating more urgently was the climate crisis. Last year, the top trending search on Google in the US was Charlie Kirk, with several terms relating to the threat posed by Donald Trump also popular, when the focus should arguably have been the threat posed by AI."
"Karen Hao's book Empire of AI laid out a case against Sam Altman and his company, OpenAI, that briefly pierced the tedium of the discourse to say that Altman's leadership is cult-like and blind to cost, no different, in other words, to his tech predecessors, except much more dangerous."
"The investigation this week in the New Yorker offers a lower-commitment on-ramp to the subject, while giving the casual reader an exciting opportunity: to ask ChatGPT, the AI-powered chatbot created by Altman's OpenAI, to summarise the key findings of a piece that is highly critical of ChatGPT and Altman."
Since the 1970s, the focus on inflation and geopolitics has overshadowed the urgent climate crisis. Recent trends show public concern directed towards figures like Charlie Kirk and Donald Trump, while the real threat of AI remains under-discussed. Personal anxieties about AI often center on immediate impacts, such as job security for future generations. Books like Karen Hao's 'Empire of AI' criticize the leadership of Sam Altman at OpenAI, yet many remain unaware of these critical discussions. The New Yorker investigation provides accessible insights into the dangers posed by AI and its implications for society.
Read at www.theguardian.com
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