Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt said that he’s worried humans will start falling in love with AIs, using AI chatbot tutors as a prime example.
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO and coauthor of the book « The Age of AI, » has said that he’s worried humans will start falling in love with AI.
It’s a fair concern, considering that, well, a good number of them already have.
« Imagine a world where you have an AI tutor that increases the educational capability of everyone in every language globally, » Schmidt in a Sunday interview, adding that this use case, among others, is « remarkable. »
« And these technologies, which are generally known as large language models, are clearly going to do this, » he continued.
« But, at the same time, they face extraordinary – we face extraordinary new challenges from these things, » Schmidt added, before asking rhetorically: « what happens when people fall in love with their AI tutor? »
It’s a particularly timely example, as just this week, The reported that OpenAI tech is powering a Silicon Valley private school’s newly-unveiled AI tutor.
