OpenAI has published a policy document to help ensure the economic benefits of AI are shared with human workers.
The document – Industrial policy for the intelligence age: Ideas to keep people first – lays out a set of industrial and economic policy proposals designed to “ensure that AI is developed and deployed in ways that maximise the benefits for people while mitigating the risks”.
As AI technology develops and becomes more ubiquitous, where does that leave human employees?
Founded in 2015, San Francisco-based OpenAI, which owns the generative AI chatbot ChatGPT, has always stated that it aims to develop “safe and beneficial” AI. But how will AI be safe and beneficial to humans’ livelihoods when OpenAI claims that AI systems are now capable of outperforming the smartest humans, even if they themselves are assisted by AI.
This 13-page document attempts to prepare society for AI-driven change. Instead of sidelining humans, the emphasis is on how we can go about “governing advanced AI...