[ExI] Interview with an ex-OpenAI exec and futurist about AI in 2025 and beyond

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An ex-OpenAI exec and futurist talks about AI in 2025 and beyond
AI could bring some real benefits next year, but also some unforeseen
side effects.
By Mark Sullivan    12-26-2024

<https://www.fastcompany.com/91252463/an-ex-openai-exec-and-futurist-talks-about-ai-in-2025-and-beyond>
Quotes:
This week, I’m dedicating the newsletter to a conversation I had
recently with the futurist Zack Kass about some of the risks and myths
that will come with the advent of AI across business and society.

More likely is that, at some point, a percentage of the population
will be more interested in the virtual reality than the physical one,
and that percentage may grow and actually become sort of dominant,
which would obviously be catastrophic for population growth and
quality of life.

If you can actually figure out how to automate everything and the cost
of everything declines so far that you can live freely, it’s more that
people may not know what their purpose is in a world where their work
changes so frequently and so much.

The low-resource bad actor problem is a risk. In a world where we
embolden anyone to do interesting things with this technology, we
should create very punitive measures to police bad acting with it. We
should make bad actors terrified to use AI to do bad things—financial
crime, deepfakes, etc.
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An interesting discussion from an AI insider.

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