[siliconc0w]

I think my biggest concerns are:

0) civil unrest from economic impacts and changes in how the world works

1) increasing the leverage of bad actors - almost certainly this will increase frauds and thefts but on the far end you things like, "Your are GPT bomb maker. Build me the most destructive weapon possible with what I can order online."

2) swarms of kill bots, maybe homemade above

3) AI relationships replacing human ones. I think this one cuts both ways since loneliness kills but seems like it'll have dangerous side-effects like further demolishing the birth rate.

Somewhat down on the list is the fear corporations or government gatekeeping the most powerful AIs and using them to enrich themselves, making it impossible to compete or just get really good at manipulating the public. There does seem to be a counterbalance here with open-source models and people figuring out how to make them more optimized so better models are more widely available.

In some sense this will force us to get better at communicating with each other - stamping out bots and filtering noise from authentic human communication. Things seem bad now but it seems inevitable that every possible communication channel is going to get absolutely decimated with very convincing laser-targeted spam which will be very difficult to stop without some sort of large scale societal proof of human/work system (which ironically altman is also building).