It’s hard to imagine textbooks are going to thrive in an AI-dominated future, so suspend your disbelief as you imagine schoolchildren turning to this page full of key dates:
Many other largely ignored, experts-sounding-alarms moments could’ve fit here, and this week offered one more candidate: a group of AI workers signed another open letter.
It sang a more resigned tune than past letters, not harping on AI’s “serious risks” like its predecessors, instead focusing on protections for whistleblowers who want to speak out about those risks.
The letter’s 13 signatories seem to already know the counterpoint to any direct appeal for safety: money. Trillions of dollars worth of it.
We’re too deep into an all-out arms race for warnings of doom to land, and as the stakes rise, the rate of development will only accelerate, per Axios.
Those who want the boulder to stop rolling downhill should continue speaking out, and AI employees who keep signing letters should be commended for risking retribution to do so.
But the monied interests driving the AI revolution are unlikely to pay much attention at this point; they are far beyond open letters.