From Benzinga, May 9:
Zinger Key Points
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has joined Meta Platforms’ Mark Zuckerberg in warning about the threat of AI to jobs and the economy.
- Altman thinks GPT-4 has lulled people into thinking AI is not a threat.
OpenAI CEO and ChatGPT creator Sam Altman expressed his concerns about the potential economic upheaval that artificial intelligence (AI) can cause.
What Happened: Altman’s apprehensions stem from the potential job displacement and broader socioeconomic changes that AI could bring about.
During a panel on AI and geopolitics at the Brookings Institute [sic], Altman highlighted the need for more serious discussions about AI’s impact on the economy.
"The thing I’m most worried about right now is, the sort of, the speed and magnitude of the socioeconomic change may have, and what the impacts on what that will be."
Altman noted a decline in discussions about AI’s economic impact, particularly in terms of potential job replacement. He expressed concerns about the consequences if these issues are not taken seriously.
Altman cited the lack of a noticeable economic impact from GPT-4, a language model powering ChatGPT, as a reason for the diminished concern.
"GPT-4 didn’t have this huge detectable impact on the economy, and so people were kind of like, “Oh well, we were too worried about that, and that’s not a problem."
He warned that failing to address these issues could have massive consequences....
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