Peter McAllister

The world gets interesting, I'll put it that way.

If you look at how other technologies have evolved over time, my favorite comparison is the car.

So the car really started to kick off in the 1880s and 1890s.

And when you had a car in the 1890s, you were allowed to drive it, but you had to have someone walking in front of you with a red flag, often with a whistle or a horn to warn that there's a dangerous object coming along.

We're at that stage with AI now, and you see it at the bottom of every chat GPT and everything else where it says, danger, this may not be accurate.

So that's the same fate as where we are with that.

We're now five generations into having the car.

Auto accidents kill around about a million people a year globally.

Somewhere in that five generation process, we've made the bargain that says a million's about the right number.

that we're prepared to give up a million lives to have the benefits in society of these cars and trucks and those kinds of things.

I don't think there was a UN summit about it to set the number.

I don't think there was any process that sat down and went, this is where it is, but that's where we've become comfortable with as a society.

AI is going to follow that same trajectory.

What is that the society is prepared to give up to have the benefits of that?

And I haven't heard or seen any real cognitive effort going into the fact of saying, don't look at about today.

Don't think about tomorrow.

Think about 20 years, 50 years down the track.

What's the bargain we have to make?

to have this in play.

And it's more likely a Matrix bargain than a Terminator bargain.