The Immorality of Artificial Intelligence

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Kevin: I think that making a synthetic clone of someone's voice without their consent is actually immoral. 11 Labs, which is the company that was mentioned in this question, has had to deal with because they put out an AI cloning tool for voices and people immediately started using it to like make famous people say offensive things. Kate: Would it be unethical if you had a crush on someone to write yourself GPT generated love letters? Are there versions of this that would not be over the line?

A few days after a lawyer used ChatGPT to write a brief filled with made-up cases, a group of A.I. experts released a letter warning of the “risk of extinction” from the technology. But will A.I. ever be good enough to pose such a threat?

Then, FAANG is now MAAAN, with the addition of Nvidia. Here’s how the GPU company became a trillion-dollar behemoth.

Plus: Kevin, Casey and the New York Times tech reporter Kate Conger answer Hard Questions from listeners.

Today’s Guest:

Kate Conger is a technology reporter in the San Francisco bureau of The New York Times.

Additional Reading:

A lawyer used ChatGPT the same week that A.I. leaders released a 22-word statement about the existential risk A.I. poses to humanity.
The chip company Nvidia hit a $1 trillion market cap, powered by A.I. demand.
The podcast “Acquired” did a two-part series on the history of Nvidia.