Frontier AI Ethics: Anticipating and Evaluating the Societal Impacts of Language Model Agents

Understand

Some have criticised Generative AI Systems for replicating the familiar pathologies of already widely-deployed AI systems.

• Other critics highlight how they foreshadow vastly more powerful future systems, which might threaten humanity's survival.
• The first group says there is nothing new here; the other looks through the present to a perhaps distant horizon.
• In this paper, I instead pay attention to what makes these particular systems distinctive: both their remarkable scientific achievement, and the most likely and consequential ways in which they will change society over the next five to ten years.