If you worry about humanity, you should be more scared of humans than of AI
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21428264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Moran Cerf (0000-0002-2012-3177, corresponding author), Adam Waytz (0000-0001-9706-6062) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue | 5 |
| Pages | 289-292 |
| Publication date | 2023-09-03 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0096-3402 • E-ISSN: 1938-3282 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/00963402.2023.2245242 |
| OpenAlex | W4386582934 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted extensive and public concerns about this technology’s capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, algorithmic bias, and cybersecurity breaches and to pose, potentially, existential threats to humanity. We suggest that although these threats are both real and important to address, the heightened attention to AI’s harms has distracted from human beings’ outsized role in perpetuating these same harms. We suggest the need to recalibrate standards for judging the dangers of AI in terms of their risks relative to those of human beings. Further, we suggest that, if anything, AI can aid human beings in decision making aimed at improving social equality, safety, productivity, and mitigating some existential threats
Anxiety · Environmental ethics · Humanity · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychoanalysis · Worry · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI · Law · Misinformation and Its Impacts · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment · Social Psychology
| Citations per year | 1 |
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| Citation span | 2025 - 2025 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |