Notification of Sam Altmancreator of ChatGPT that the world needs to “urgently” regulate artificial intelligence (AI) couldn’t be more appropriate. Just as even Silicon Valley’s biggest techno-optimists are getting nervous about the dangerous advances AI has made in recent weeks.
Yes, you read that right: in recent weeks.
However, I said at a tech conference in Delhi on February 18 that there are huge benefits to AI in private hands, but “that doesn’t mean we don’t need any regulation or safeguards”.
He added: “It is clear that we urgently need them.”
As with nuclear arms regulation, to do something similar to the Internacional de Energía Atómica for AI controlstated
I’ll admit that you read Altman’s discourse with skepticism, because tech tycoons are used to sheathing their swords in warning sentences about AI criminals, while among lobbyists they have great luck narrowing the laws that limit them.
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No embargo, Altman’s warning reflection growing panic in the tech community for new AI models that are ready to go up.
Many fears that anyone can use to create biological weapons, launch cyber attacks, create fake videos to bring world peace, or destroy hundreds of thousands of people in the same year before our societies can react.
Matt SchumerThe 26-year-old programmer and tech entrepreneur managed to publish a groundbreaking article that attracted 84 million hits within a few days.
An article titled “Something Big Is Coming” says that AI took a giant leap on February 5 when ChatGPT and Claude launched their respective GPT-5 Modex and Opus 4.6 models on the same day.
First, these models create sophisticated applications by word of mouth alone.
And not only that: check the application further because something is not right and fix any errors, just like a human programmer. When they’re done, they tell you, “This is a list of what you want.”
Shumer says he’s shocked: “I’m not essential to the technical work I’ve done. These new models.” These are not incremental improvements: they are completely new“.
Shumer points out that people say the AI is still “green” and the Comets have a lot of bugs because they use the free versions, which are usually the 2024 models. Those models are prehistoric compared to the latest paid versions, he assures.
In 2018, when I published my book Hi anyone can in view of the impending automation of work, I predicted this thousands of employees will be replaced by artificial intelligence. But I imagined that even their own red rollers like Shumer would be replaced by smart computers.
Dario Amodeifounder of Anthropic, says in the new title The coming of age of technology that the power that augments AI are “unimaginable cases and it is not clear that our social, political and technological systems have the power to handle it”.
The governments of Spain, Denmark, France and other countries, concerned about an epidemic of youth depression that may be caused by social media addiction, have announced legal plans to ban or restrict use by children under 16.
In Australia, a law to that effect came into force in December.
And in Los Angeles, California, you have a key word against Facebook, Instagram and other social networks, claiming that they deliberately designed their algorithms to encourage addiction to the sites of children and teenagers and cause all kinds of mental illness.
Juice claims tech companies are flooding their content with pornography and violence now powered by artificial intelligence keep kids glued to the screenand you can earn more money by advertising.
“Don’t show kids what they want to see if they can’t stop seeing it,” I tell myself Matej Bergmanone of the abogados demandantes. “For this reason, the algorithms reveal the material more and more extreme.”
All these battles are now underway and will decide the future of humanity: from the mental health of young people to global security.
But when their own tech moguls like Altman raise the alarm about the dangers of uncontrolled artificial intelligence, it’s time to do something: the reality is probably much worse than what we expect.
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