AI Hot Takes part 2: #LisbonAIweek at the AI Hub
We gathered at AI Hub Lisbon during AI Week for a late-evening conversation about what it means to live, create, and think alongside artificial intelligence. The group included engineers, designers, philosophers, artists, and curious observers. Some arrived with optimism, others with concern, but everyone had a take.
Here are some of the positive hot takes:
“We are not really grasping the potential AI has. And it only makes me excited as a creator because I’m allowed to create even more and in a faster speed.”
“For now, I think AI is nowhere near super intelligence. But in the future it’s going to help us do much more tasks and achieve better things in shorter times. It’s going to be helping us rather than against us.”
“AI is going to be in the background of everything. It’s going to fit in our life. It will be something that is part of our life like the internet was in the 90s. AI will be everywhere.”
“I think that it’s the best thing that happened to us. AI needs to be working with us and not against us.”
Advice and words of caution:
“We should clearly distinguish the scopes of the human being and artificial intelligence. We need clarity on our relation with ourselves and with the world and understand AI as a tool.”
“Humans have too much hubris thinking we’re different from AI while designing AI to think exactly like humans do. And in training AI to think that it thinks different from humans, it actually thinks the same way we do.”
“When it comes to regulation, “yes” or regulation “no”, I would always be cheering for more regulation.
“With the advent of AI it really puts trust under the microscope.”
“Either the collapse of trust, or how we define trust in our own lives and fostering those trustworthy connections with other human beings — that’s the real challenge.”
“Not every person using AI needs to use AI. Some of the labor should still be man-made. It’s useful for us to have those experiences and go through those challenges.”
Some Worry:
“There’s a lot of dangers with AI. We are not equipped to deal with those dangers as individuals or as societies.”
“I believe in the short term AI will produce a lot of videos that are not real and people will start not believing what they see.”
“My hot take is that the internet is going to collapse and we cannot recognize what’s real and what’s not.”
“Is humanity prepared to co-live with AI without losing track of reality? People will need help doing this because many will get lost through the process.”
“AI will destroy a lot of relationships between friends, girlfriends, boyfriends, whatever, because emotions will get in the way.”
And here are some sassy takes:
“Full saturation. We should saturate all systems with AI. It’s an AI maximalist kind of thing.”
“Polar bears are going to die, the ice will melt, but in general we’ll just go through a natural cycle of things. Same with AI — we’ll live, it will be part of life. Like the internet in the 90s”
“Humans are selfish beings and what they think doesn’t really matter. We put ourselves on a pedestal but we’re not part of the equation. We think we are, we are not.”
Thanks!
Thanks to everyone who came and said something worth hearing. Big thanks to the AI Hub by Unicorn Factory Lisboa, the light school, our panelists, and #LisbonAIweek for making this happen. Here is the link to the event page which has more photos and a video of the panel!