AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the "Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy"

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AI Likely to Increase Inequality, Sam Altman Admits, or Control the "Population Through Mass Surveillance and Loss of Autonomy"

In a new post on his personal blog, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warned that AI could lead to plenty of economic inequality while allowing authoritarian governments to "control their population through mass surveillance and loss of autonomy." OpenAI has made it its goal to realize "artificial general intelligence" — the still-entirely-hypothetical point at which an AI can achieve and surpass the intellectual capabilities of a human — that "benefits all…

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Artificial superintelligence is close to being achieved - but its effects will be uneven on the economy, warned Sam Altman himself, the CEO of OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT. “Some industries will be undertransformed, but scientific progress is likely to take place at a much faster rate than it is today,” Altman said in a text entitled Three Observations, published on his personal blog. The “three observations” concern aspects of the economy of …

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The OpenAI Executive Director warns about the uneven impact of AI and proposes ideas such as a computational budget to ensure equitable access to its benefits in the future.