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Could a “ChatCEO” reduce costs and improve business?
Jeff Bezos famously said, “Your margin is my opportunity,” and for nearly 30 years Amazon has destroyed brick-and-mortar margins to dominate retail sales and distribution. With the advent of social media 20 years ago and its explosive growth in the last decade, the new “margin” became our own attention. Big Tech has profited mightly by extracting our attention away from the time we once spent with family, friends, and neighbors. In force-feeding us the Internet’s most incendiary garbage, we are angrier, lonelier, and more depressed than ever–by design.
Steve Wozniak, Yuval Noah Harari, Andrew Yang, and Elon Musk are among the most prominent of the more than thirty-three thousand people, predominantly men, who have signed the open letter to pause AI experiments earlier this year. While the letter raises some valid concerns, the existential-risk-to-humanity cries about the “dangers” of artificial intelligence have been rather vague and feel more like fear-mongering than actual concerns. The clearest example of harm is already widely available: generative AI is easily used by human or nation-state actors to manipulate populations–a continuation of social media’s scorched social fabric march toward profits.
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