Art curator Karthik Kalyanramani on potential & perils of Generative AI

Art curator Karthik Kalyanramani on potential & perils of Generative AI

20 June 2023

| Ignition

For the first time in the history of technological evolution, scientists are asking for their creation to be regulated. Elon Musk has likened the development of AI to summoning the devil. Cognitive scientist Gary Marcus, Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak, and 1800 signatories have called for a pause in building systems more powerful than GPT 4. What is at stake? 300 million jobs? The key to human consciousness? What is Frankenstein’s fear? AI art curator Karthik Kalyanramani unpacks the hot debate around generative AI & ChatGPT. Should we be excited or afraid? Why are AI pioneers worried about their own creation? Is the human race scripting its own extinction? Find out in the most crucial conversation of our time.