“Stop AI or we’re all going to die!” shout protesters.
They blame artificial intelligence for water shortages, higher electricity bills, and lost jobs.
Are the worries valid?
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“They deny the huge benefits,” says Alex Epstein, who writes about AI and energy, “and they totally exaggerate the hazards and ignore all the ways we have of solving them.”
AI haters make it sound like data centers will drain America dry.
But it’s not true.
Data centers do use water. But it’s just a fraction of a percent of US water use. And that water can be recycled.
What about our jobs? Experts said:
“AI would wipe out radiologists … even a Nobel Prize-winning AI scientist was saying this,” says author Adam Thierer. “But guess what? We have more radiologists today than ever before!”
The truth doesn’t stop clueless politicians.
Bernie Sanders wants to ban AI that surpasses human capabilities.
But In many ways, AI has already surpassed humans. He wants to stop it all?
In the video above, more AI fears debunked, and how slowing American innovation will give us something worse: Chinese AI.
