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    Hiding Behind the AI Apocalypse

    A conversation with Damon Beres about what regulating this technology would actually look like
    by Isabel Fattal May 17, 2023 4 minutes
    Source: Nathan Posner / Anadolu Agency via Getty

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    Yesterday, the OpenAI CEO Sam Altman testified before a Senate judiciary subcommittee about the “significant harm” that ChatGPT and similar generative-AI tools could pose to the world. When I asked Damon Beres, The Atlantic’s technology editor, for his read on the hearing, he noted that Altman’s emphasis on the broader existential risks of AI might conveniently elide some of the more quotidian problems of this new technology. I called Damon today to talk about that, and to see what else has been on his mind as he follows this story.

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