AI is changing the world faster than most realize

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The people building AI are saying — subtly and unsubtly — that the technology is advancing more rapidly than the vast majority of people realize.

It’s likely we won't know how and how much AI will change the way we live, work and play until it already has.

"The internet was a minor breeze compared to the huge storms that will hit us," says Anton Korinek, an economist at the University of Virginia. "If this technology develops at the pace the lab leaders are predicting, we are utterly unprepared."
Zoom in: Pay attention to what the people closest to the technology are saying.

“[T]he 2030s are likely going to be wildly different from any time that has come before. We do not know how far beyond human-level intelligence we can go, but we are about to find out,” OpenAI CEO Sam Altman wrote in a recent blog post.

Dario Amodei, CEO of Anthropic, told Axios’ Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen that AI could wipe out half of all entry-level white-collar jobs in the next one to five years.

Geoffrey Hinton, one of the "godfathers of AI," told BBC Radio 4 the technology is moving "very, very fast, much faster than I expected."

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