Stop Bitching about AI (and do something about it) — Risks to Humanity
The "Stop Bitching" Part A lot of people are against AI. Blaming the technology rather than those who develop, own, deploy and regulate it may feel satisfying, but it changes little. It allows the people making the decisions to stay out of view while the public argues with something that cannot be held accountable. The possibility that AI could threaten humanity deserves serious attention. But the choice is not simply between trusting it and banning it. As with other powerful technologies, we can decide what is permitted, demand evidence of safety and hold people responsible when things go wrong. The question is whether we will insist on doing so. Who has actually seen this technology? In a post on X , AI researcher Andrej Karpathy offered rough estimates of how much contact people have with large language models: About 75 per cent of humanity has barely encountered them. Around 20 per cent uses free chatbots casually. Roughly 0.2 per cent works with frontier m...