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Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?
Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?
Sam Altman. (Drew Angerer via Getty Images)
A conversation with Sam Altman, the man behind ChatGPT, about the risks and responsibilities of the artificial intelligence revolution.
By Bari Weiss
05.01.23 — Culture and Ideas
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Is AI the End of the World? Or the Dawn of a New One?

If you asked most Americans a year ago if they’d heard of OpenAI, few outside of Silicon Valley would have recognized the name. Now OpenAI’s artificial intelligence chatbot, ChatGPT, is used daily by over 100 million users. Some of those people—including the economist Tyler Cowen—report using it more often than Google. ChatGPT has become the fastest-gro…

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Bari Weiss

Bari Weiss is the founder and editor of The Free Press and host of the podcast Honestly. From 2017 to 2020 Weiss was an opinion writer and editor at The New York Times. Before that, she was an op-ed and book review editor at The Wall Street Journal and a senior editor at Tablet magazine.

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