Wharton Professor Loses Sleep Over Alien AI's Transformative Effects
• Ethan Mollick discusses the effects of AI like ChatGPT on business, art, and truth-seeking in his latest interview
• Mollick describes having "sleepless nights" when he first encountered ChatGPT, calling it "remarkably similar to an alien co-intelligence"
• AI is already "decomposing" jobs and transforming workplaces, classrooms, artistic production, and the truth-seeking process
• Issues around AI include identity protection in the age of deepfakes, AI "doomsday" scenarios, and whether AI regulation is possible
• Mollick says we should treat chatbots like ChatGPT as a "person" even though they are not human