AI models should be required to be trained on datasets that have been fact checkedI think digital content that is created with AI should be required to clearly state that it was created with AII think it should be illegal to create video & audio deep fakes that imitate a real person without that person giving their explicit permissionThe animal spirits surrounding AI are decidedly ambivalent but lean, just slightly, toward pessimism.
When trying to predict the effect of AI on society, people forecast all sorts of dangers, from job losses to privacy threats and government and corporate misuse . These dangers are weighted more heavily than potential positive applications, like new medical treatments and economic empowerment . And when asked how they feel about the potential impact on their personal and professional life and on society more generally, people are pretty evenly split between worried and excited.
Many people in the AI world are currently warning about the “existential risk” posed by AI systems — the hotly contested idea that superintelligent AI could doom humanity. If they want to speak to the population, they’ll find more than a few in agreement, with 38 percent agreeing with the statement that AI will wipe out human civilization. Perhaps that’s why more people are worried than not.