The Future of the Internet

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The internet is going to get incredibly polluted over the next couple years by what these things can generate. I would not be shocked if 95% of what is written by the internet in five years is all just junk from these these line, these large language models are all just like semi human sounding. And so there will be lots of content.

They operate according to rules we can never fully understand. They can be unreliable, uncontrollable, and misaligned with human values. They're fast becoming as intelligent as humans--and they're exclusively in the hands of profit-seeking tech companies. "They," of course, are the latest versions of AI, which herald, according to neuroscientist and writer Erik Hoel, a species-level threat to humanity. Listen as he tells EconTalk's Russ Roberts why we need to treat AI as an existential threat.