You know we’re in deep doo-doo when AI developers turn to Oprah to allay universal concerns about the existential risks AI poses. But, with all due respect to the Oprah effect, how we’re handling climate change speaks volumes.
After all, we’ve had the science, the means, and the urgent calls to action. Yet, we’ve proven remarkably adept at kicking that can down the road, seemingly gripped by a morbid and abiding fatalism. Now, with AI, we seem consumed by the same – the danger it portends be damned.
In the end, AI is poised to turn Marx’s warning on its head. It’s not just capitalism that contains the seeds of its own destruction. With AI, humanity is sowing the seeds of its own demise.
