should I be worried about AI?

Should I be worried about AI?

Should you be worried about AI? Some of it, yes, but not the parts headlines pick. The honest worries are ordinary: confident wrong answers, and who is pointing these systems at what. Pick a question below.

Some of it, yes. Not the parts the headlines pick.

Pick the one you actually came here for

• will AI take over the world? — Two questions that show what it can actually do on its own.
• is AI dangerous? — Where it is most confidently wrong is where you can least check it.
• what is the AI singularity? — The definition moves. That is most of the argument.
• will AI go away? — The money can go. The maths has been shipping since before you noticed.
• is AI smarter than me? — It has read more than you. It cannot tell when it is wrong. You can.
• will AI take my job? — The honest, cited answer — not a hot take.
• does ChatGPT sell your data? — It's not selling. It's something quieter, and you can turn it off.
• why does ChatGPT lie? — It's not lying. It's guessing with a straight face.

Nothing on this page predicts the future. Every widget here shows something you can reproduce in any chatbot right now, which is the only kind of claim worth making about this.

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