“In 1945, humanity unlocked the most destructive power the world has ever seen: the nuclear bomb.”
That’s how Alexis Bonnell, AI partnerships manager at OpenAI, began her remarks at the Devex Impact House during the United Nations General Assembly last week. Bonnell pointed to how, once again, the world is grappling with a technology as powerful as it is perilous — artificial intelligence. And just like the atomic bomb, the difference between the two depends on how humans choose to use it.
“I think of [AI] as my superpower suit, and the question is not what it can do,” she said. “The question is, who will I become when I put that suit on?”