"Big tech firms recklessly pursuing profits"
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this post was submitted on 18 Jan 2024
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Tech companies say they are putting in place systems to prevent AI being used for criminal or other malign purposes, and insist the new technology will create more jobs than it destroys
Automation doesn't create more jobs than it replaces, if it did there would be no point. In some cases it removes bottlenecks which allows for greater scale which in turn creates jobs, but these new jobs often require different skillsets from the ones displaced.
You're not really allowed to criticize them for this when your economic system encourages this exact behavior.
Big Tech Firms recklessly pursuing profits ~~from AI, says UN Head~~
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Big technology companies are recklessly pursuing profits from artificial intelligence and urgent action is needed to mitigate the risks from the rapidly growing sector, the head of the United Nations has warned.
In a fierce attack on the technology multinationals, the UN secretary general, António Guterres, told the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos that every breakthrough in generative AI increased the threat of unintended consequences.
Addressing the WEF in the Swiss resort, the UN head challenged representatives of the tech industry in the audience to work with governments to put in place guardrails for AI.
The OpenAIchief executive, Sam Altman, told a Davos event on Tuesday that an energy breakthrough was necessary to meet the future demands of AI, which will consume vastly more power than people expected.
The chief executive, who was sacked last November from his role running the ChatGPT developer and then reinstated a few days later, said the silver lining was that more climate-friendly sources of energy, particularly nuclear fusion or cheaper solar power and storage, were the way forward for AI.
Last year, Guterres accused fossil fuel companies of pursuing business strategies incompatible with human development, saying: “These two issues – climate and AI – are exhaustively discussed by governments, by the media, by leaders here in Davos.
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yall realize its a race, right? if you ain't first, you're last. It might be nice to slow down and consider it if it's a good idea, but it's more like an international arms race similar to the Manhattan Project than people are giving it credit for.