We are hurtling toward a glitchy, spammy, scammy, AI-powered internet

I agree with critics of the letter who say that worrying about future risks distracts us from the very real harms AI is already causing today. Biased systems are used to make decisions about people's lives that trap them in poverty or lead to wrongful arrests. Human content moderators have to sift through mountains of traumatizing AI-generated content for only $2 a day. Language AI models use so much computing power that they remain huge polluters. But the systems that are being rushed out today are going to cause a different kind of havoc altogether in the very near future.