Fans of 2001 and the Terminator movies aren’t the only people worried about artificial intelligence. In 2014, Elon Musk (no enemy of technology) told the Guardian he thought artificial intelligence might be “our biggest existential threat.” Researchers developing AI systems could be “summoning the demon,” he said. Well, now the demon is here, and it wants to say hi. On November 30, 2022, the conversational AI interface ChatGPT was made available to the public. Today, anyone can ask it to write poems, explain quantum physics, compose letters, write computer code, or do their homework. Is this a good thing?
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James B. Meigs is cohost of the How Do We Fix It? podcast and the former editor of Popular Mechanics.
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