Why I’m Not Panicking About the Future of Generative AI

There’s a lot of doomsday chatter about artificial intelligence lately. If you’re a podcast listener, you’ve undoubtedly heard an episode about the looming A.I. apocalypse on every podcast you listen to. I’ve lost count of the number of episodes <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/column/ezra-klein-podcast" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Ezra Klein</a> has done on the subject (literally). His arch <a href="https://medium.com/@ajdrenth/sam-harris-vs-ezra-klein-what-went-wrong-bccada803c0d" rel="noopener">nemesis</a>, Sam Harris, has also done <a href="https://www.samharris.org/podcasts" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">quite a few</a>. Jordan Peterson has <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ll5c50MrPs" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">covered it</a>. Joe Rogan has <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2023/5/3/23708635/joe-rogan-ai-experience-podcast-interview" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">covered it</a>. The framing is always the same: A.I. is becoming dangerously complicated as rapid technological progress threatens to undermine our culture, steal our jobs, and — in the worst-case scenario — poses an existential threat to humanity. It’s been on everybody’s minds since the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT 3.5 and 4. In May, an ex-Google pioneer in the field of artificial made <a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/artificial-intelligence-pioneer-leaves-google-warns-technologys-future-rcna82242" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">headlines</a> when he quit the tech behemoth and warned the public about the dangers of the power of the artificial intelligence technologies being developed right now. <a href="https://joemduncan.medium.com/why-im-not-panicking-about-the-future-of-generative-ai-5587c1c4cc18">Click Here</a>