Conservative commentator Ben Shapiro has found reasons to both cheer and fear the artificial intelligence (AI) revolution.
In a recent column, Shapiro wrote that AI has the potential to revolutionize many aspects of our lives, from the way we work to the way we interact with the world around us. He pointed to the potential benefits of AI in areas such as healthcare, education, and transportation.
“The artificial intelligence revolution is here,” Shapiro said. “It is only going to grow more and more in both scope and breadth. Things like ChatGPT are actually very basic versions of what the techno-bros have in store for the rest of the world. And there are some people who are very hot on it, some people who are very scared of it.”
“I think that the upsides economically are going to be extraordinary,” he said. “I think in terms of labor-saving and productivity, we could see an explosion of productivity that essentially brings inflation down to zero. That makes an enormous number of products, goods, and services significantly easier to access for a wide variety of people. That allows pretty much anybody to engage in a variety of industries they never would have had access to before.”
“There are some problems, I think, when it comes to the sort of human brain development aspect of AI that we’re going to have to discuss because one of the things that we’ve really never thought about with regard to technology, we’ve always thought about technology as something apart from us. Technology is a machine that you use, but the truth is the machine shapes you,” he said.
“AI is a double-edged sword,” Shapiro wrote. “It has the potential to do great good, but it also has the potential to do great harm. We need to be careful about how we develop and use AI, and we need to make sure that it is used for good and not for evil.”
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