Opinion

ChatGPT opens a Pandora's box of existential fears. Silicon Valley brainiacs have talked about safeguards and kill switches for A.I., but you know they won't pull the plug when their baby turns into M3gan. Once A.I. can run disinformation campaigns at lightning speed, will democracy stand a chance? We seem headed toward a Matrix where "it will become cheaper to show fakes than to show reality," Jaron Lanier, the father of virtual reality, wrote in Tablet. Will bad actors use A.I. to promote bigotry or hijack nuclear weapons?