Karen Huo, a journalist and author of the best -selling book The Empire of Artificial Ielligence, Openai and the Artificial Ielligence Industry to a digital empire that is expanding with the promise of “public artificial ielligence for the benefit of all humanity”. According to Huo, the company has not only found economic power but also significa political power in the world and has formed how to use artificial ielligence.
Ideology and Speed is preferable to efficiency
Hoo says there is a pseudo -religious ideology that prefers the speed of public artificial ielligence developme over efficiency, safety and exploration research. According to him:
“When you try to build a useful public ielligence as an attempt in which the winner wins everything, the most importa thing is speed.”
Sam Altman and his team also use existing techniques and huge investme in superconductors to maiain this speed and force other technology companies to follow.
Astronomical costs and impact on industry
OpenAI has predicted that it will spend $ 5 billion in artificial ielligence developme by year 2. Big companies like Meta and Google also invest billions of dollars in artificial ielligence infrastructure. Hoo says these costs and concerations of the industry have made most of the top artificial ielligence researchers attracted to Openai and less academic research.
Great promises, real risks
While Openai promises to promote humanity and help the sciences, Hoo warns that significa human and social costs have been created:
Job loss
Focusing wealth
Increased illusions and meal disorders caused
Hard and low wages for workers in developing couries that examine the annoying coe
Hoo pois to Google Dipmand Alphafold that it is an example of artificial ielligence that creates real and extensive benefits.
Global competition and geopolitical consequences
Despite the slogans of Openai and Silicon Valley about competition with China, Hoo says:
“In fact, the gap between the United States and China is declining, and Silicon Valley is the only actor to benefit from this situation.”
A profit or charity mission?
Hoo and former OpenAI researchers warn that the company may lose the boundary between its profit and nonprofit missions. People’s use of ChatGPT and other products may be mistakenly ierpreted as being useful for humanity, while evidence suggests that some of the company’s actions are damaging to a significa number of people.
Huo concludes:
“The real danger is that when you drown in a belief system you have built, you lose your relationship with reality.”
Openai today has become a global economic and political power that, with the promise of “public artificial ielligence for the benefit of all humanity”, forms the path of industry. The company and other great artificial ielligence actors, with astronomical investmes and attracting most top researchers, prefer developme speeds and safety.
While artificial ielligence can provide great benefits for human science, productivity, and life, Hoo and experts warn that human and social costs, job loss, wealth focus, and psychological harm are also prese.
In other words, Openai and the like are moving in a risky and risky path that can bring both enormous gains and serious threats to human societies and social infrastructure. This situation is reminisce of a digital empire; Where the ideology and the speed of developme determine the facts and risks.
