The challenges posed by new AIs are not totally new

Artificial intelligence is a major concern. However, these new technologies do not bring us completely new threats. And while the risks of drift are far from nil, we still have a number of safeguards in place to prevent them.us.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is capable of taking us beyond what we once believed to be the limits of what is possible. Open-source software like Dall-E and Midjourney, designed to create images that have never existed before, pave the way for both the incredible and the disastrous. On the one hand, they bring far more of humanity’s daydreams closer to reality, but on the other, they are leading our civilization into a grave era of doubt. These programs guide us through the dark times of deepfakes—that is, the manipulation of images and sound—especially when these tools—like all