It turns out that years of movies showing countless doomsday scenarios around advanced AI does not endear the public to the idea of mainstream adoption of artificial intelligence. A new Reuters/Ipsos poll finds that 61% of Americans see A.I. as a threat to humanity—22% did not, and 17% were unsure.

Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT was released in November, the race to bring generative A.I. to the public went into overdrive as companies like OpenAI, Google, and Microsoft competed for market dominance. Even though Skynet and the T-800 are still works of fiction, billionaire investor Warren Buffett likened the A.I. arms race to the development of the atomic bomb.

“It can do all kinds of things and when something can do all kinds of things I get a little bit worried,” Buffett said earlier this month. “I know we won’t be able to uninvent it and, you know, we did invent—for very, very good reason—the atom bomb.”

Buffett is not alone in issuing warnings about A.I. OpenAI co-founders Elon Musk and Sam Altman have also voiced concerns about potential dangers.

“Even benign dependency on A.I./automation is dangerous to civilization if taken so far that we eventually forget how the machines work,” Musk tweeted.

Musk’s concern around A.I. even led to the Tesla and Twitter CEO signing an Go to Source to See Full Article
Author: Jason Nelson

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