Commentary
The explosive adoption of the AI language model ChatGPT has been accompanied by a proportionate increase in alarmist assessments of the dangers of artificial intelligence. The alarm is sounding across the political spectrum, from the New York Times to Steve Bannon’s War Room, with concerns ranging from widespread job losses, to more effective disinformation campaigns, to facilitating oppression by authoritarian regimes, to the very destruction of the human race.
These concerns aren’t shared evenly across the political spectrum. The left primarily focuses upon the disinformation angle; the potential for oppression is the right’s primary worry. Everyone seems nervous that humanity may have opened a Pandora’s Box that will, ultimately, lead to its own annihilation….