How worried should we be about AI, artificial intelligence?
There are signs of growing concern about what it could mean as this newest technology continues to grow and spread to many parts of our lives, at home, at work, in health care, in government and seemingly everywhere.
We have heard the news stories. Stories about jobs that could be cut with people replaced by AI. Stories about the way AI is affecting the way some teachers do their lessons and some students do their assignments, with an AI app doing it for them.
And we have heard the story about one of the founders of AI urging a pause in the use of the technology before it gets out of control.
A report by Axios today warns of AI, despite its ability to provide answers to problems and create and write things, it also has the potential to make it even harder to know what is true.
Their report says that the “brains” who developed AI warned officials during a recent meeting at the White House of AI being used to create an “imminent explosion of highly convincing and manipulative fake videos and stories” leading up to the 2024 elections.
With it already hard to know at times what is true and what it is not on social media and Americans’ increasing lack of trust in many institutions, that is not good news.
As someone once said, where there is no truth, there is chaos. And all you have to do is look around a bit to know how true that has become sometimes.
(Photo Getty Images)