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 creator, is utilizing AI to study French for a trip (“Harmless to practice 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 in opposition to her trigger, trying to move clear air initiatives (“Investigate the AI campaigns flooding public agencies with fake comments,” April 1). By means of completely different experiences, they see related negatives in AI’s impact on society.
Whereas utilizing it to study French, Laser shared just a few constructive examples of what AI has completed for him. However the constructive features are outweighed by the negatives he describes: the mass unemployment it could trigger, the theft of our concepts and voices, the way it makes faux information look actual, the injury it is going to do to the setting and the injury it is going to do to our brains as we change into dependent upon it.
Nichols’ downside with AI is how it may be used to achieve political energy. Understanding that AI has been utilized in political campaigns at a time when our president is sowing mistrust in our elections and political methods, and whereas tech billionaires are accumulating our personal information, 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 want extra analysis and managed experiments to assist us construct an infrastructure to comprise its immense energy functionality. Left unchecked, the tech billionaires have the software 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
