On Advancing Global AI Governance
Artificial intelligence (AI) constitutes a general-purpose technology — perhaps one with transformative potential not seen since the Industrial Revolution. The technology’s power to spur both beneficial and harmful change is enormous. Now is the time to understand collective interests around…
DO WE DARE USE GENERATIVE AI FOR MENTAL HEALTH?
THE MENTAL-HEALTH APP WOEBOT launched in 2017, back when “chatbot” wasn’t a familiar term and someone seeking a therapist could only imagine talking to a human being. Woebot was something exciting and new: a way for people to get on-demand mental-health support…
Is AI Search a Medical Misinformation Disaster?
Google’s AI Overviews search tool may not be following the best policies Last month when Google introduced its new AI search tool, called AI Overviews, the company seemed confident that it had tested the tool sufficiently, noting in the announcement that “people have…
Forecasting Transformative AI, Part 1: What Kind of AI?
This is the first of four posts summarizing hundreds of pages of technical reports focused almost entirely on forecasting one number. It’s the single number I’d probably most value having a good estimate for: the year by which transformative AI will…
ChatGPT Strikes at the Heart of the Scientific World View
The past year delivered one tech debacle after another, from the cryptocurrency implosion to Elon Musk’s reputational immolation, to Mark Zuckerberg’s weird bet that people would be thrilled by the addition of legs to avatars in his Second Life-like Metaverse. Until late 2022,…