In an interview with The Atlantic, Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI (ChatGPT), explains that yes, artificial intelligence will eliminate jobs. Except that according to him, no one wants to go back.
This is surely the biggest fear we can have since the recent boom in artificial intelligence. No, not world domination by robots. The loss of his job due to replacement by an AI. From the rise of ChatGTP and similar, the forecasts are alarmist: 300 million workers would lose their jobs. And even if OpenAI, at the origin of ChatGPT precisely, wants to reassure with its list of professions that will never be replaced by AI, we are still a little worried.
Especially since the dynamic is very real. Here we learn that a CEO laid off 90% of his workforce to use AI instead. Where Hollywood wants to replace actors with digital versions. Or that Netflix is willing to pay an AI expert $900,000 a year to be able to do without actors too. Well sorry to disappoint you, but OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says that it’s going to get worse, and there’s nothing we can do about it.
OpenAI boss confirms that AI has harmful effects on employment
Sam Altman clarifies things bluntly: “Many people working on AI claim that it is only beneficial, that it will only help, that no one will be replaced. Jobs will disappear, period”. Even knowing this, he thinks “there will be no going back”. Ironically, the man takes the example of teachers to talk about a profession where, according to him, we will always prefer a human… before adding that thanks to artificial intelligence, “all children will have a better education than the richest and smartest child on Earth can have today”.
Perhaps motivated by a hint of remorse, Sam Altman recently launched Worldcoin, a cryptocurrency that wants to be accessible to all. The controversial idea is that you earn a share of the cryptocurrency in exchange for scanning your iris. In the mind of the boss of OpenAI, it must be used to create a universal minimum income. A way to compensate for jobs lost due to AI surely.
Source : The Atlantic
