Yuval Noah Harari He is a renowned Israeli professor and historian who expresses what many think: the fear of the progress of Artificial Intelligence.
He’s so concerned about AI and ChatGPT that he doesn’t hesitate to say he doesn’t know “if mankind can survive” to the “regime” that, according to him, will be created with this and other powerful technological tools.
Harari, in an interview with the British newspaper The Telegraph, confirmed that he had put his name in a letter signed by hundreds of world experts, including Elon Musk, asking to suspend the development of ChatGPT.
“The new generation of AI doesn’t just deliver human-produced content. It can produce the content itself. Just imagine what it’s like to live in a world where most lyrics and melodies and then TV series and images are created by a non-human intelligence. We just don’t understand what that means,” he said.
The greatest risk, according to the thinker, is democracy. When AI can “take over the conversation” or put issues on the table, “democracy is over” since there are no humans to speak up.
Taking the Nazi regime that unleashed World War II as an example, when there were no such technological developments, Harari believes that the 21st century could be characterized by “a new regime with much more powerful tools”.
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If the AI can solve more situations, for the historian human beings are relegated: the labor market would simply forget them.
“We could reach a point where the economic system sees millions of people as completely useless. This has terrible psychological and political consequences,” he warned.
In keeping with his perception of the “regime”, Harari is alarmed that “for the first time in history” power is shifting from humans to artificial intelligence or a machine.
For example, he recalled how some judges around the world have used artificial intelligence to decide whether or not a defendant should go to prison or to know what to do in a particular judicial process.
“We need to understand that AI is the first technology in history that can make decisions for itself. It can make decisions about its own use. It can also make decisions about you and me. This is not a future prediction. It’s already happening. “, convicted for The Telegraph.
Source: Clarin
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