Two researchers discuss what AI can actually do now versus what people expect. Large language models boost productivity in pharma and office work, but the real risk isn't rogue AI taking over. It's humans using AI as a force multiplier to cause harm.
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When you ask the question, can it take over the world? I think through human hands, yes. Do you think AI is going to kill us all or take our jobs? What do you think about that? I think people are overestimating the return on what AI productivity is really capable of. I think there's a lot of projections that because the market's super inflated, there's going to be a massive crash incoming where really only the fundamental AI companies will remain after that. I think AI is absolutely going to play a massive, monumental role in research, office productivity. Anything that LLM can be used, used for, like pharmaceutical development. I can only really speak on the back image. Yeah, yeah, yeah. When you ask the question, well, can it take over the world? I think through human hands, yes. In terms of, like, an independent moral arbiter that will, like, rule over everyone. I think we have to see, like, AGI even in the slightest, or even at least define that philosophically in order for us to even have that conversation. Got it. Okay. So nowhere close to that. Not yet. Not yet. I see.