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The looming crisis of AI speed without guardrails


The future will arrive with or without our guardrails. We must design AI’s structures now for a future of abundance rather than disruption.

In a New Yorker essay, Dartmouth professor Dan Rockmore describes how a neuroscientist colleague on a long drive conversed with ChatGPT and, together, they brainstormed a possible solution to a problem in his research. If the AI revolution is, as Hassabis suggests, an order of magnitude greater in scope and speed of implementation than that earlier transformation, then our margin for error is commensurately narrower and the timeline for societal response more compressed. Language models are being embedded into government services, customer support, financial platforms and legal assistance tools, often without transparent review or meaningful public discourse and almost certainly without regulation.

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