'I wish I could push ChatGPT off a cliff': professors scramble to save critical thinking in an age of AI

[gulliver]

22. We agree on the negative aspects almost entirely

I don't think what existed before (humans plus Google et al.) was better. I didn't like where we were already. AI (LLMs et al) may help.

You have a point that AI was trained on data that was likely proprietary. It's unclear to me whether intellectual property law is up to stopping that, but I highly doubt it is. If there is a case to be made against AI, AI will probably be a powerful tool in making the case against itself.

Yes, AI can dumb users down. Google, etc., already did that—massively. People shouldn't use AI to cheat on tests and homework any more than people should use a mini excavator to cheat on bench presses. AI psychosis is a problem. So is doom scrolling. AI can help with these, imo. Traditional mental illness was already going through the roof (or wasn't, depending on how much trust you have in the psychology industry).

I don't care about inequality as long as people have an economic floor. We should be trying to create law that uses AI to create that floor of prosperity. Ultimately, we shouldn't be working two jobs, each requiring forty or more hours, to support a family. We really screwed up letting it get this way. We haven't been riding the machine; it's been riding us.

You may not believe that ("oligarch!" ) Elon Musk wants to create abundance for all. I do. If his reason is wanting "to win the big e-game" or simply wanting to solve the biggest problem there is, I don't care. Unfortunately, I don't see political leaders of any stripe coming even close to getting a handle on either AI or the preexisting hellscape.