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Can We Stop Runaway A.I.? | The New Yorker

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Technologists warn about the dangers of the so-called singularity. But can anything actually be done to prevent it?

Save this story Save this story Increasingly, we’re surrounded by fake people. Sometimes we know it and sometimes we don’t. They offer us customer service on Web sites, target us in video games, and fill our social-media feeds; they trade stocks and, with the help of systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT , can write essays, articles, and e-mails. By no means are these A.I. systems up to all the tasks expected of a full-fledged person. But they excel in certain domains, and they’re branching out. Many researchers involved in A.I. believe that today’s fake people are just the beginning. In their view

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