If AI starts manipulating public opinion, we’ll never see it coming
We're in the early days of generative AI software, and they are already starting to change how we use technology, as well as how we go about being productive. Generative AI like ChatGPT and its rivals might change the world for the better. But success isn't guaranteed, and it's not straightforward. Many people worry that AI could end the world as we know it, including some of the very folks who developed the AI tech that got us here.
While I don't necessarily share those doom-and-gloom opinions about AI, I'm aware that it can happen. When AI reaches AGI (artificial general intelligence), we could miss it, and bad AI could lead to world-ending events. Before that happens, I'm more worried about a different kind of danger that the current AI models might pose to society: Manipulating public opinion.
It turns out that OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also thinks that AI that sees everything you write online could then craft messages that might manipulate you more effectively than any previous algorithms could. He said as much in a new interview about the recent events at OpenAI, where he also shared his thoughts about the future of AI.
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