As the CEO of OpenAI, Sam Altman believes that artificial intelligence can help solve many of humanity’s challenges. In a new post, he said AI will lead to huge improvements in healthcare, education, and more. But not everyone thinks AI is so great. Some people worry that Altman’s ideas may sound better than how AI will really affect our lives.
Altman said that in the future, we will all have personal AI assistants that are like virtual experts. They could work together to create or do anything we imagine. But it’s hard to know if AI bots could really replace human experts. And we have to make sure AI does not enable bad things that people imagine.
He thinks that someday, AI may help fix problems like climate change. But right now, all the energy needed for AI is actually making climate change worse. Altman wants us to believe AI will improve lives worldwide. But how will it help, and how will companies like his make money from these improvements?
One reader said posts like this make them unsure about people selling AI. While AI can help with tasks like homework, it’s not clear it can do everything Altman hopes. And we should question if virtual tutors could really be better than real teachers.
Altman wants us to believe that thanks to AI, everyone will have more prosperity than ever before. But many experts think that at first, AI will eliminate many jobs. And if everyone stops working, how will societies like ours, which are based on economic activity, survive?
He thinks super-intelligent AI may arrive within just a few thousand days. But critics argue that kind of general artificial intelligence may never exist, at least not as quickly as promised. We would need to see real proof before believing such big claims.
