Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. Max Tegmark still believes the AI industry isn't doing enough to protect us from the potential harms of its increasingly powerful models. The MIT professor is the founder of the Future of Life Institute (FLI), a nonprofit aimed at reducing the global catastrophic risks posed by AI. In 2023, FLI's open letter urging AI companies to temporarily halt the development of systems more powerful than OpenAI's GPT-4 garnered support from a number of high-profile signatories .

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. In February 2024, the MIT economist David Autor first published his most contrarian notion about generative AI--that, "if used well," it would create jobs and increase pay. It was something of an about turn for Autor, who had written for decades about why technological advances had hollowed out the middle class.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. The extent to which the pioneering venture capitalist Sarah Guo believes in the promise of AI can be summed up in a stunning sentence: "Yes, I think we can solve disease." That is to say, the 37-year-old isn't simply one of her generation's savviest and most forward-thinking investors--she's a true believer.

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Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. Follow Go to your personalized feed WHY FOLLOW? Smart Alerts: Get notified about major news as it happens. When Josh Parker joined Nvidia in 2023, there was just one other person on a team responsible for leading the sustainability strategy and public policy initiatives. It didn't deter him from his belief that they could make a difference.