Invited to speak in front of the Fed bankers, the CEO has drawn up a disturbing vision of the future of employment and world security.
Heads of state taking advice from Chatgpt, medical diagnostics without a doctor, massive cyber attacks doped for artificial intelligence: invited this Tuesday, July 22, to express themselves at the headquarters of the American federal reserve, in Washington, the CEO of Openai Sam Altman delivered a vision as futuristic as the new era as the revolution of artificial intelligence. The entrepreneur has detailed the imminent upheavals caused by the dazzling progress of AI, whether in employment, health or safety.
«Certain job categories will, once again, just completely, completely disappear“, He said before an audience of economists and bankers, by appointing the customer service as a first victim. According to him, this sector has already operated a transformation: “Now when you call, it’s an AI that responds.” It’s like a super intelligent and competent person. There is no vocal server, no transfers. It can do everything a customer support agent could do. She does not make mistakes. It is very fast. You call once, it’s done, it’s settled. ”
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Questioned by the vice-president in charge of banking supervision, Michelle Bowman, Sam Altman also praised the superiority of her tool in the medical field. “Chatgpt today, moreover, can most of the time provide you with a better diagnosis than most doctors around the world”he assured. This does not sign, however, the end of the human factor in medicine, according to the boss of Tech: “People always go to the doctor. And I don’t know, maybe I’m a dinosaur here, but I really don’t want to entrust my medical fate to Chatgpt without a human doctor in the loop. ”
Tense dangers
This remarkable speech by the founder of Openai comes when the Trump administration has just unveiled its “AI Action Plan”, aimed at reducing certain regulations and promoting construction in the country with new data centers. In reverse of his Democratic predecessor Joe Biden, Donald Trump pleads for the deregulation of AI while the tech giants, in the well understood interest, follow in his way. However, this acceleration is not free from dangers, the very admission of Sam Altman. One of his greatest concerns of concern, he explained, remains “The destructive capacities of the AI, which advance very quickly”. The catastrophe scenario, according to him? “A hostile nation that would use these weapons to attack the American financial system.”
Another threat: the fraudulent uses of vocal AI. “I am impressed by progress in imitation of the voice”he stressed, before warning: “Some financial institutions still accept the vocal imprint as authentication.” A potential flaw thus opens for crooks capable of using AI. Openai, who plans to open his first office next year in Washington, is thus geographically closer to places of power. Sam Altman, who had been auditioned at Congress in May 2023, could therefore replace Elon Musk as spokesperson for Silicon Valley with Donald Trump.
