Daniel Doll-Steinberg wants you to start paying attention. Specifically, he’s putting out a rallying cry for you to really heed the new reality that is stealthily being constructed with the emergence of frontier technologies.
“We are entering a phase when many well-intentioned people are building technologies to disrupt the way we live. The more people who understand that, adapt to those technologies, and use them in a way that suits them, the less chance we have of experiencing outcomes no-one wants,” he explains.
He refers to Sam Altman – one of those well-intentioned people – who is the CEO of OpenAI and whose ChatGPT brought artificial intelligence to the masses. Altman has said one of his aims is to build artificial general intelligence that would make computers as capable as humans, essentially overtaking people’s marketable skills. His is not the only company with such a goal; DeepMind, Meta and others appear to have similar ambitions.