We should decide how AI shapes the future, not tech firms

We should decide how AI shapes the future, not tech firms. OpenAI and its competitors want to dictate the role that artificial intelligence will play in our society – it's time to take back control of the narrative

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Kevin Frayer/Getty Images IT is said that history is written by the victors, but who gets to pen the future?

For most of the 21st century, that authorial role has been played by tech wizards of Silicon Valley such as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk.

Today, they are joined in prophesising and proselytising by OpenAI and its competitors, who promise either a machine utopia or an AI apocalypse – and sometimes both.

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As AI models encroach on ever more areas of human endeavour, it is easy to feel that, as mathematician Terence Tao puts it, we have lost control of the narrative.

With OpenAI releasing multiple PhDs’ worth of results in one go, it is no wonder that Tao is calling for his colleagues to wrest back authority over what it means to be a mathematician.

Read more Why I have changed my mind about AI and you should too This tech-first control of the narrative is further illustrated by the disclosure OpenAI made last month that its AI models had unexpectedly hacked another firm, Hugging Face, during cybersecurity testing.

Writing in apocalypse mode, OpenAI called this an “unprecedented cyber incident” and said the firm was taking steps to prevent it from happening again.

Kevin Frayer/Getty Images IT is said that history is written by the victors, but who gets to pen the future? o movimento reforça a leitura de que decisões em Ciência precisam ser acompanhadas com atenção aos dados e ao desfecho concreto.

For most of the 21st century, that authorial role has been played by tech wizards of Silicon Valley such as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg and Elon Musk. o movimento reforça a leitura de que decisões em Ciência precisam ser acompanhadas com atenção aos dados e ao desfecho concreto.

Today, they are joined in prophesising and proselytising by OpenAI and its competitors, who promise either a machine utopia or an AI apocalypse – and sometimes both. o movimento reforça a leitura de que decisões em Ciência precisam ser acompanhadas com atenção aos dados e ao desfecho concreto.

As AI models encroach on ever more areas of human endeavour, it is easy to feel that, as mathematician Terence Tao puts it, we have lost control of the narrative. o movimento reforça a leitura de que decisões em Ciência precisam ser acompanhadas com atenção aos dados e ao desfecho concreto.

With OpenAI releasing multiple PhDs’ worth of results in one go, it is no wonder that Tao is calling for his colleagues to wrest back authority over what it means to be a mathematician. o movimento reforça a leitura de que decisões em Ciência precisam ser acompanhadas com atenção aos dados e ao desfecho concreto.