Dario Amodei · Mark Zuckerberg · Elon Musk · Wall Street · The Atlantic Technology
Kara Swisher: AI Isn’t Going to Destroy Humanity—But the People Building It Might
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As the AI industry likes to tell it, superintelligent bots could one day cure cancer and end poverty.
Key facts
- Because now suddenly there’s liability, whether it’s Facebook’s $17 billion settlement—not enough, but better than $5 million, which was the last fine they got, essentially
- Because 10 years ago, 12 years ago, the reporter has been at dinner parties where they talked about this concern
- Swisher: It was Elon Musk; Sundar Pichai of Google, or whatever they call themselves now—Alphabet; Mark Zuckerberg; Jeff Bezos
- Like five to seven years ago, they would have maybe not even mentioned Sam Altman or Dario Amodei
Summary
“We have to stop thinking AI is going to kill humanity,” she told Atlantic executive editor Adrienne LaFrance at The Atlantic Festival. In the several decades that Swisher has covered Silicon Valley—formerly as a reporter at The Wall Street Journal, now as the host of two podcasts—she says that she’s seen tech whizzes make the same mistakes again and again: failing to take proper precautions against the products they are building. So anyway, they're at a moment where something’s going to happen. The reporter is like, why do you have controlling share? The reporter go, yeah, but if they're all equal, why aren’t they equal? And now they’ve figured out that all they have to do is hand money, and then they get what they want, or they don’t. But why do you need to do it on a floating thing in Lake Tahoe?