Posted 4/4/2024, 10:00:00 AM
The High Costs and Risks of Unchecked Generative AI Growth
- Generative AI has high environmental costs due to its massive energy and computing requirements, which will only grow as AI spreads
- Funding and investment pouring into generative AI startups could be better spent solving other problems rather than wasted during an AI hype bubble
- Proliferation of AI content risks creating an overload of low-quality AI spam, hallucinations, and misinformation
- Social and political institutions will need to transform at high cost to deal with impacts from unconstrained generative AI
- We need social scientists guiding collective decisions on whether and how generative AI can provide social benefit versus just leaving direction to businesses and tech companies