AI is either your most helpful coworker, a glorified search engine or vastly overrated depending on who you ask.
And no one seems to agree on which is right.
Tech executives championing AI have long spun the narrative that the tech will revolutionize jobs and bring about a new industrial revolution. Skeptics think it’s all marketing hype, while some researchers and executives are sounding the alarm about safety concerns on their way out the door.
The discrepancy in how people view AI has perhaps never been so apparent as this past week, after a viral essay from an AI CEO and investor claimed