My Thoughts On AI

AI is upon us. Below are my succinct thoughts regarding AI, some of which may contradict one another.

1. Current LLMs/AI are extremely useful and will become more useful in the coming months.
2. Almost all of us can benefit from using AI now, both personally and professionally.
3. AI reduces/removes the knowledge barrier to completing many tasks, not to mention its efficiency.
4. Many skills that historically took years and decades to hone can now be performed by anyone with AI, not expertly yet, but effectively.
5. AI will eventually surpass human intellect altogether. Some predict we'll arrive at AGI in 3-5 years.
6. AI, both in software form and robotic form, will eventually be better than humans at everything.
7. Although AI won't necessarily be better at being authentically human (consciousness, natural creativity, emotions, pain, love, etc.)
8. AI/robotics will eventually modify every job across the board.
9. AI/robotics will eventually replace/displace every job as it currently exists.
10. It's unknown whether our future jobs will be far superior, AI-empowered jobs, or if AI will just do all the work for us.
11. Humans need to work and have meaning and fulfilment in life. Taking away work could be catastrophic.
12. Assuming AI is developed perfectly, we're woefully underprepared for the economic and societal implications.
13. There's a non-zero chance that AI will go awry and enslave/exterminate humans altogether.
14. All of us will be impacted by AI, but its development is in the hands of very few.
15. Regardless of development in the US, it is and will be developed abroad.
16. AI will be the most significant technology to have been created.
17. It's in the strategic interest of the United States to arrive at AGI first and to have the most advanced AI.
18. We should be careful with AI regulation, in that regulation may curb development/innovation, leading to AGI arriving elsewhere sooner.
19. We should absolutely develop AI carefully to limit the chance of deleterious results.
20. The US government almost certainly needs to regulate in order to maintain safety, while also not restricting innovation.
21. Many are very hopeful that AI will help to usher in a brighter future for all.
22. Many are very skeptical, predicting that AI will usher in a brighter future for only a few.
23. Some believe AI will end humanity.
24. There have been many world-altering and positive innovations. We should continue that. But AI seems different in its rate of development and its ability to supplant the human mind, not just the body. This doesn’t mean it won’t be positive, as other innovations have been, but it’s different.
25. No one really knows. We are flirting with the unknown. It may have a beautiful and wonderful result. It may have a horrible and catastrophic result.