A two-day summit starting on Wednesday in London will explore regulatory safeguards against AI risks such as those below.The success of ChatGPT from OpenAI has ignited the debate about whether"generative AI" capable of quickly producing text, images and audio from simple commands in everyday language is a tremendous threat to jobs held by people.Generative AI, however, can take aim at white-collar jobs such as lawyers, doctors, teachers, journalists, and even computer programmers.
But it is also possible companies would reap profits from improved efficiencies, leaving those out of work to fend for themselves.Artists were quick to protest software such as Dall-E, Midjourney and Stable Diffusion that are capable of creating images in nearly any style on demand. Generative AI makes it easier for scammers to create convincing phishing emails, perhaps even learning enough about targets to personalise approaches.
Since AI is trained on data put on the web by humans, it can mirror society's prejudices, biases, and injustices.