Bill Gates: AI risks are real but manageable
The risks of AI are real but manageable (2023)
Bill Gates argues that the risks of AI—from deepfakes and cyberattacks to job displacement—are real but manageable, drawing on historical precedents like cars and the internet. He emphasizes that AI can also help solve these problems, and that new laws and global cooperation will be needed. Gates remains optimistic about the Age of AI, despite acknowledging the uncertainties.
The risks are real, but I am optimistic that they can be managed.
- smallmancontrov
It took over a century to go from Oliver Twist to the broad Post-WWII Middle Class. How long this time?
- bcrosby95
The first thing this wave of automation seems likely to replace is automation itself.
For this reason it's hard for me to give much attention to comparisons to previous industrial revolutions. It would have looked way different if the first thing they built was a factory factory.
I will give this post some slack though, it was written in 2023.
- zingar
Would love to know what he thinks nowadays
- teach
This page fails to load for me (Firefox on MacOS with UBlock Origin AND DNS-level pi-hole adblock)
https://www.gatesnotes.com/search-reader?readerfocus=the-ris...
This link works, though
- hash872
The whole 'AI can't automate a lot of jobs, because that's exactly what everyone in the past said about technological advances then!' is a classic fallacious argument. It simply fails as a logical thought pattern. Past technological gains that happened decades or a century plus ago are discrete events separated by time and space from today. 'It didn't happen in the past so it can't happen today' is the same logic as 'I've flipped this coin and gotten heads 5 times, so it will land on heads on every future throw too'. It's completely possible that several times in the past, humanity was wrong about widespread job automation- but they can be right this time.
The whole argument just irritates me on a logical basis. You're basically saying 'the future will unfold exactly the way the past did'. No that doesn't follow at all. We may have dodged widespread automation in past history, but that doesn't mean it will automatically happen every time in the future. You haven't discovered like an Iron Law Of History that repeats every single time. You're just reasoning from a very small sample size and overfitting. Sorry for the rant, the whole argument just annoys me