Posted 12/30/2023, 4:00:00 PM
AI Frenzy Mirrors Past Bubbles but May Yield Long-Term Boons and Banes
- Current AI hype and investment frenzy resembles past technological bubbles, with lots of waste but also long-term progress
- True impacts of transformative technologies like AI are impossible to predict currently
- AI may significantly augment human capabilities, but also amplify harms
- Mass deployment of AI faces sustainability and economic viability challenges
- We can't yet foresee AI's effects centuries hence, just as Gutenberg's contemporaries couldn't foresee print's impacts