Some thoughts about AI risks

Let’s talk about AI risks. I’m not a huge believer in existential AI risk, in the idea that artificial intelligence will wipe out humanity. There are much more concrete risks unfolding today that are worth our attention – the impact AI has on climate through energy and water use, the conditions of the workers who review and clean up training data and user inputs, the opportunity costs of every dollar and every bit of political capital spent on AI not being spent in other places where it matters. But mostly, I promise you that we’ll see another effect of AI that’ll just continue to be a pain in the ass: AI will increase the background level of chaos across society.It may be through AI agents going rogue, like the many, many, many cyberattacks by rogue Open AI agents . It may be through increasingly powerful AI-powered tools in the hand of malicious or simply irresponsible actors. It may be through tools malfunctioning, or functioning as designed but used poorly. Most likely, it’ll be…