So now we have to worry about another threat to the world. As if pandemics, nuclear war and global warming and rising seas are not enough.
This week’s warning from a group of tech leaders about artificial intelligence raises new concerns that go beyond whether AI is going to mean changes in the workplace, and some jobs being lost and ways it could affect schools and colleges.
As Forbes puts it, these leaders from the tech world say that “Tackling the ‘risk of extinction’ posed by artificial intelligence should be a global priority on par with averting catastrophes like nuclear war.”
These calls to slow down and put things on hold to carefully examine the impact and potential dangers from AI technology have been increasing in recent months.
And there already are a lot of concerns about how artificial intelligence is affecting social media and even more than before, what it is true and what is false in what we see, watch and read online.
It has led to issues involving of what we can trust and who we can trust.
While there were concerns about past advancements in technology like everything from electricity to cars to computers, AI has even the ones who have developed it now worried about its potential impacts.
We’d be smart to listen to these experts on artificial intelligence.
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