Artificial intelligence is not your friend

Tour de force AI talk

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A diagram showing that the electrical power consumption of data centers in Denmark is expected to rise from 2 TWh in 2025 to 8 TWh in 2030 and once again to 26 TWh in 2050.

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A headline from Danish newspaper Politiken, which reads 'Vores tankefrihed er under angreb fra chatbotternes subtile manipulation'

Click to load imageA screenshot from Twitter. A user writes that they saw someone use ChatGPT to do long multiplication, and it got the answer wrong. Another user responded with a photo of Don Draper and the text 'A calculator that costs 1 trillion dollars, but it's also wrong.'

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AI will save us from everything! AI will fix all of our problems! AI is a revolution!

The excitement around AI is everywhere these days. Since ChatGPT launched in 2022, we have seen leaders, pundits, politicians, investors and journalists trip over each other in order to declare that the AI revolution is just around the corner. But... is it really?

In this tour de force talk, I go through all of those things you won't really hear in the public debate about AI. Over the course of 90 minutes, you get answers to questions like:

  • What is AI?
  • Is it a friend of the planet?
  • Is it a friend of the economy?
  • Is it a friend of democracy?
  • Is it a friend of humanity?
  • And if it's not our friend, then what is it?

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