A number of interesting and highly recommended reading articles contribute to the enormous brainstorming that is going on around the role of artificial intelligence and generative algorithmics in the future, and invite you to think about some of the more interesting aspects of this debate.
First, Sam Altman’s response on WSJ Tech Live regarding the impact of artificial intelligence on the future of jobs, basically along the lines of “we’ve seen this before” and “every hundred or hundred and fifty years, half of the jobs as we knew them disappear”: a dialectic of the “what matters is the speed at which this happens” type, because if the process takes place over one and two generations, society absorbs it perfectly and seamlessly, whereas if it takes place quickly, it is impossible to assimilate.
It is extremely interesting to compare this view with that of a reference like Yann LeCun, who claims that artificial intelligence is still much dumber than a cat and will never pose a threat to humans, and that therefore aggressive regulation of it is completely and utterly premature and will only generate problems and restrict competition.
The idea that a few companies are the ones that know and can responsibly develop this technology is incredibly pretentious and absurd, and regulating with that kind of viewpoint would be like trying to regulate airlines before the airplane was invented.