SOCIETY
Issue #338
2 Apr 2023
….but it will not be uncontested. Bill Gates’s positive vision is outlined in this essay (particularly interesting for us is the near future arrival of ‘personal copilots’ trained on your own email, calendar, social network, document data) whilst others are now publicly advocating a moratorium on future releases in the Pause Giant AI Experiments: An Open Letter, to which further contestants spin the geopolitical risk of pausing and falling behind, to which yet further contestants suggest pre-emptive nuclear strikes as a solution to those who won’t stop. Italy have unexpectedly taken a lead - banning ChatGPT on what look like GDPR violations. Who knows where we will end up? The world doesn’t agree, which is the expected outcome of in the early days of a new era.