Geoffrey Hinton, one of the inventors of modern AI, famously predicted the end of human radiologists within a few years, only to see a boom in hiring and salaries for radiologists when it turned out that AI actually complemented their skills. So how the heck are businesspeople and inventors supposed to 'steer' AI toward being complementary to human workers?

Noah Smith

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"I think staying ahead is wildly overrated," he told me. "This idea that everyone is selling — that you have to either get on the AI train or get left behind — is pernicious and frankly wrong."

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"It was obvious to us that 10,000 other people were going to go do the content thing," he says. For Ghetti, those "flashiest" uses missed the most important questions: how could we use technology to truly understand our own digital footprint, our own precious data? More importantly: if we got there, how would we control those treasure troves, so that we weren't putting the big AI labs like OpenAI in charge of our own "personal worlds"?

Alex Konrad

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