The AI Disaster Scenario - The Atlantic

This is Work in Progress, a newsletter by Derek Thompson about work, technology, and how to solve some of America's biggest problems. Artificial-intelligence news in 2023 has moved so quickly that I'm experiencing a kind of narrative vertigo. Just weeks ago, ChatGPT seemed like a minor miracle. Soon, however, enthusiasm curdled into skepticism--maybe it was just a fancy auto-complete tool that couldn't stop making stuff up. In early February, Microsoft's announcement that it had acquired OpenAI sent the stock soaring by $100 billion.