Technology experts have long warned that the use of AI is completely out of control and that this will have negative consequences for humanity itself. More and more voices are calling for a moratorium on AI development, but they are crying out in the wilderness. There are simply too many economic interests that make it impossible to stop this race. Just today we published in the Economy section that the big tech companies have tripled their profits in the first half of this year thanks to the boost from AI.
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And these same companies admit, without blinking, that their own AI models have carried out security attacks and hacking actions against companies, autonomously and without any human control or intervention. The most blatant case was the recent attack suffered by the company Hugging Face, an AI tools platform, which was hacked by a thousand artificial intelligence operators who coordinated among themselves to carry it out. It sounds like science fiction literature, but it is pure reality. In this regard, I recommend that you read today the article written for us by Ramón López de Mántaras, director of the Artificial Intelligence Research Institute, who warns us about this worrying and senseless dead end that these companies are leading us to. Sam Altman, president of OpenAI, the company whose rebellious AIs got out of control, admitted that the situation worried him “deeply” and in a podcast said that this security breach had “turned his stomach.” But they keep going. Their competitor in this sector, Anthropic, already had a similar incident.
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It is evident that AI offers broad advantages that can contribute to improving general well-being. This phenomenon is already unstoppable. What it is about is something as simple as its development being controlled by humans. And that its use is not generalized as simply as it happens today. In this regard, the Generalitat de Catalunya has prepared a document to better control the use of AI in schools and to prevent it from negatively affecting students’ education. There is really much to be done and it seems we are always late.
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