{"id":183969,"date":"2024-02-29T01:22:40","date_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:22:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bill-gates-isnt-too-scared-about-ai"},"modified":"2024-02-29T01:22:40","modified_gmt":"2024-02-29T07:22:40","slug":"bill-gates-isnt-too-scared-about-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/bill-gates-isnt-too-scared-about-ai","title":{"rendered":"Bill Gates isn\u2019t too scared about AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/bill-gates-isnt-too-scared-about-ai.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like Gates, Leslie doesn\u2019t dismiss doomer scenarios outright. \u201cBad actors can take advantage of these technologies and cause catastrophic harms,\u201d he says. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to buy into superintelligence, apocalyptic robots, or AGI speculation to understand that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut I agree that our immediate concerns should be in addressing the existing risks that derive from the rapid commercialization of generative AI,\u201d says Leslie. \u201cIt serves a positive purpose to sort of zoom our lens in and say, \u2018Okay, well, what are the immediate concerns?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In his post, Gates notes that AI is already a threat in many fundamental areas of society, from elections to <a href=\"http:\/\/technologyreview.com\/2023\/04\/06\/1071059\/chatgpt-change-not-destroy-education-openai\/\">education<\/a> to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2023\/03\/25\/1070275\/chatgpt-revolutionize-economy-decide-what-looks-like\/\">employment<\/a>. Of course, such concerns aren\u2019t news. What Gates wants to tell us is that although these threats are serious, we\u2019ve got this: \u201cThe best reason to believe that we can manage the risks is that we have done it before.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Gates, Leslie doesn\u2019t dismiss doomer scenarios outright. \u201cBad actors can take advantage of these technologies and cause catastrophic harms,\u201d he says. \u201cYou don\u2019t need to buy into superintelligence, apocalyptic robots, or AGI speculation to understand that.\u201d \u201cBut I agree that our immediate concerns should be in addressing the existing risks that derive from the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,1878,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-183969","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-employment","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183969","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=183969"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/183969\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=183969"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=183969"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=183969"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}