Look, I’m begging people to take this all-time example and look at the yawning gulf here—between the marketing promises of the always latent “all powerful AI that benefits all of humanity” and the reality of “White House intern uses ChatGPT to generate trade policy that might cause a global recession.” Predicted benefits, and proven harms, to paraphrase the scholar Dan McQuillan. We cannot blame this disaster on AI itself—it is, of course, also an enormous user error. But still: This is how AI is being used, in practice! This is what AI is delivering us, right now! It’s being used by the cruelest and laziest people—who may or may not actively want to crater the US economy in the hopes that it consolidates their power—to automate critical decision making.
Source: Welcome to the age of AI-generated economic collapse
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