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This is Fresh Air, I'm Terry Gross. Hundreds of leaders in the field of artificial intelligence

recently signed an open letter warning that artificial intelligence could destroy humanity.

The letter said,

mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority alongside other societal-scale

risks such as pandemics and nuclear war.

We're going to talk about some of the risks of AI from the battlefield to politics,

as well as some of the benefits, and we'll consider the example of the AI Innovation Chat GPT.

It's like a surge engine in that it's been programmed with unfathomable amounts of information

and can access the information immediately.

But unlike a surge engine that connects you to a website or quotes from them, chat GPT

can actually answer your questions in a more personalized, conversational sounding way.

And carry on a written conversation with you, but it's not always going to be accurate

and sometimes it's going to be downright weird.

My guest, Cade Metz, is a tech reporter for The New York Times, who's been writing about

AI for years and is the author of the 2021 book Genius Makers, The Mavericks,

who brought AI to Google, Facebook, and the world.

Cade Metz, welcome back to Fresh Air.

It's a pleasure to have you back on the show.

I know everybody's doing these goofy things, the chat GPT.

And, you know, guilty, I'm doing them too.

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