For the past few years, AI has hurtled towards each next step in optimization. ChatGPT made for a mainstream tool, but before that, people speculated — as in movies such as Her and iRobot — about AI sentience. We haven’t gotten there, and in actuality, we won’t. But concerns over the unknown tend to preoccupy society, especially over technology coming from self-professed utilitarians. Right now, these concerns center around job replacement and child harm.
Human disconnect is the broadest of our AI fears — probably broad enough to encompass most others. It has the curious quality of sounding more banal and more forgettable than imminent unemployment crises, as well as more distant than the obvious problem of teenagers’ social media addictions. Yet it is also
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