Ed Ludlow

Bender: AI’s ‘Existential’ Risk Is ‘Fake’

According to Bloomberg Tech's description, University of Washington professor Emily Bender argues the AI safety debate dwells on hypothetical existential threats and overlooks present harms: environmental costs, worker disruption, surveillance, misinformation and chatbot dependence. Bender also argues that AI systems reaching outside networks are the responsibility of deploying companies, not models going rogue.