The CEO of a software testing company told a panel at Catholic University of America that AI will not create mass unemployment – though it could make people more stupid.
Will Wilson, CEO of reliability platform Antithesis, was part of the panel pondering how Christians should consider AI, the technology’s threats and the church’s role in the debate.
According to a report by the Catholic News Agency, Wilson rejected the idea of mass joblessness due to AI as "a very silly fear because human desires and human wants are infinite, and therefore, we always find new things for people to do."
What was a worry, he continued, was that even though AI was "not actually intelligent," people could use it as a substitute for human intelligence, losing their own in the process.
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