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Axios CEO Warns AI Will ‘Reorder Society.’ Jim VandeHei says he is concerned lawmakers are paying “very little attention” to the rise of artificial intelligence


Axios CEO Jim VandeHei on Friday warned artificial intelligence will "reorder society" and he is concerned by how lawmakers approach it

Axios CEO Jim VandeHei on Friday warned that artificial intelligence will “reorder society,” further admitting he is alarmed and thrown off by how cavalierly lawmakers in Washington, D.C., are approaching the technology. A day later, OpenAI COO Brian Lightcap said he believes artificial general intelligence — where AI models can perform any intellectual task that humans can — will be reached within the next four years. And Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian said during a different panel on Thursday that he believes “the pure software part of Silicon Valley” will have a “reckoning” in the next few years as a result of AI.

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