We explore the effects of artificial intelligence and the governments that are desperately trying to keep up with the technology. Are we all doomed or is there hope for mankind? Andrew Mueller speaks with Slovenia’s president, Natasa Pirc-Musar; Digital Europe director-general Cecilia Bonefeld-Dahl; and CEO of Mission Control AI, Ramsay Brown. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
In the realm of artificial intelligence, we find ourselves caught in a blend of opportunity and impending doom.
On one side, job displacement is on the horizon.
Your friendly neighborhood barista might soon be replaced by a robot with better latte, art skills and no need for tips.
Meanwhile, our privacy is slipping away faster than a wifi signal in a crowded cafe as our gadgets learn more about us than our closest friends ever could.
Yet, amidst this delightful chaos, AI does offer glimmers of hope.
It promises to revolutionize healthcare, provide personalized learning experiences, and maybe even help us figure out how to fold a fitted sheet.
The real challenge is ensuring our digital companions don't get too ambitious.
Right?
Oh, that's enough of that.
While we all still have jobs, alert listeners may have detected, or at least we earnestly hope they did, that what they were listening to just there was a script generated by ChatGPT, asked to furnish 150 words on the subject of AI in the style of the presenter of this program, who is now trying very hard not to take personally the idea that this is the impression of him held by our increasingly omnipotent AI overlord and then voiced by a simulator fired up with scrapings of his actual voice.
This is actually me, but you're having to take my word for it, which is kind of the point of this episode.
It is always the case that technological advance moves faster than attempts to regulate it.
There was traffic before there were traffic.
Traffic lights.
But AI is accelerating at such a clip that the gap between innovation and effective regulation might swiftly grow irrecoverably wide.
Has the horse already bolted?
Is there any amount of stable door slamming that might nevertheless be useful?
And do our governments understand what they're dealing with?
This is the foreign desk.
We still do not have global law of the net, global law of the AI.