William Overman began his Ph.D. program at Stanford Graduate School of Business at an auspicious moment: just two months before ChatGPT launched publicly in November 2022, exploding the widely held understanding of what machines are capable of.
Even as Overman began enlisting AI for his research, he grew wary of where the technology was headed. "This isn't only about the apocalyptic potential of what could happen; I'm also thinking a lot about the future of human flourishing," Overman says. He fears that misaligned AI could overstep its bounds—not necessarily maliciously—and inflict subtle yet real harms on people.
"To prevent that, we need to get this right," Overman says.
Yep.
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