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The Obsolescence of Parenthood
Lesley Rice
In her recent New Atlantis article titled “Sam Altman Doesn’t Want to Be Your A.I. King—But He Might Be Anyway,” Louise Liebeskind recounts an interview with ABC in which Altman, the thirtysomething CEO of OpenAI, is presented with his own statements that artificial intelligence could eliminate millions of jobs, increase misinformation and racial bias, and issue in unimaginable destruction. Altman responds: “I think it can do the opposite of all of those things too. Properly done, it is going to eliminate a lot of current jobs, that’s true. ... Would you push a button to stop this if it meant we are no longer able to cure all diseases? ...” [The interviewer] counters, “Would you push a button to stop this if it meant there was a five percent chance it would be the end of the world?” “I would push a button to slow it down.”
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