To the editor: Thanks to visitor contributors Michael Laser and Mary Nichols for his or her opinions on the usage of AI and its potential for inflicting nice hurt to humanity.
Laser, an writer, is utilizing AI to study French for a trip (“Innocent to follow French with ChatGPT? Au contraire,” April 1). Nichols is chair of the California Air Assets Board and writes about AI being weaponized in a marketing campaign towards her trigger, trying to cross clear air initiatives (“Examine the AI campaigns flooding public businesses with pretend feedback,” April 1). Via completely different experiences, they see comparable negatives in AI’s impact on society.
Whereas utilizing it to study French, Laser shared just a few optimistic examples of what AI has accomplished for him. However the optimistic elements are outweighed by the negatives he describes: the mass unemployment it might trigger, the theft of our concepts and voices, the way it makes pretend information look actual, the injury it is going to do to the atmosphere and the injury it is going to do to our brains as we develop into dependent upon it.
Nichols’ downside with AI is how it may be used to realize political energy. Realizing that AI has been utilized in political campaigns at a time when our president is sowing mistrust in our elections and political techniques, and whereas tech billionaires are accumulating our personal knowledge, is just too scary to ponder.
Each Laser’s and Nichols’ opinions align in that the advantages of AI are insignificant in relation to the potential prices. We’d like extra analysis and managed experiments to assist us construct an infrastructure to comprise its immense energy functionality. Left unchecked, the tech billionaires have the device they should seize all the ability their cash alone can’t purchase. Congress should enact limits to its use earlier than it will get uncontrolled.
Tony Wooden, Redlands
