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AI Is Dangerous, but Not for the Reasons You Think | Sasha Luccioni | TED
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So I've been an AI researcher for over a decade.
And a couple of months ago, I got the weirdest email of my career.
A random stranger wrote to me
saying that my work in AI is going to end humanity.
Now I get it, AI, it's so hot right now.
(Laughter)
It's in the headlines pretty much every day,
sometimes because of really cool things
like discovering new molecules for medicine
or that dope Pope in the white puffer coat.
But other times the headlines have been really dark,
like that chatbot telling that guy that he should divorce his wife
or that AI meal planner app proposing a crowd pleasing recipe
featuring chlorine gas.
And in the background,
we've heard a lot of talk about doomsday scenarios,
existential risk and the singularity,
with letters being written and events being organized
to make sure that doesn't happen.
Now I'm a researcher who studies AI's impacts on society,
and I don't know what's going to happen in 10 or 20 years,
and nobody really does.
But what I do know is that there's some pretty nasty things going on right now,
because AI doesn't exist in a vacuum.
It is part of society, and it has impacts on people and the planet.
AI models can contribute to climate change.
Their training data uses art and books created by artists
and authors without their consent.
And its deployment can discriminate against entire communities.
But we need to start tracking its impacts.
We need to start being transparent and disclosing them and creating tools
so that people understand AI better,
so that hopefully future generations of AI models
are going to be more trustworthy, sustainable,
maybe less likely to kill us, if that's what you're into.
But let's start with sustainability,
because that cloud that AI models live on is actually made out of metal, plastic,
and powered by vast amounts of energy.
And each time you query an AI model, it comes with a cost to the planet.
Last year, I was part of the BigScience initiative,
which brought together a thousand researchers
from all over the world to create Bloom,
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