AI and the Future of Life

The future of life letter refers to letting machines flood our information channels with propaganda and untruth. A convincing image of Pope Francis in a resplendent puffer jacket created by the AI image generator mid-journey has come to symbolize those concerns. Pizzana warns of people deploying systems that actually manipulate people and bring down some of the key pieces of our democracies. All technology can be harmful in the wrong hands but cutting edge AI may make it one of a few dual class technologies Like nuclear power or biochemistry which have enough destructive potential that even their peaceful use needs to be controlled and monitored.