ChatGPT released one of its first marketing campaigns ever. The ad campaigns are beautiful and show how the tool enriches human life.
This is the declaration of an organization that many believe is stealing the jobs of many people.
This list starts from Software Engineers, Marketers, Writers, Designers, Researchers, Historians, and everything that requires some sort of knowledge and content production. And that list has threatened a lot of people.
Yet, the campaign has this serene feel to it, an almost harmonious quality.
But Altman was recently quoted as saying, “I can easily imagine a world where 30 to 40% of the tasks that happen in the economy today get done by AI in the not very distant future.”
That’s a very troubling thing to come from the person at the forefront of AI development. There’s no doubt that he is the face of the entire AI revolution.
He follows it up with “Think about the jobs that we did 30 years ago that may not exist at all today, or new jobs that were difficult to imagine 30 years ago that are now commonplace”.
He points out that ChatGPT-5 is intelligent than him and most people, something the users of GPT-5 may disagree with.
But he says something striking next. He says, “I believe you can never fight evolutionary biology. We are wired to care about other people and not to care about machines. We’ll be happy that these machines will be doing stuff for us, making the world richer, discovering new science, and curing diseases. But they will not be the center of the story.”
What does he mean by this? As the world fears authoritarian powers, is he positioning AI as a liberator of creativity and evolution? Yes, that is what he is saying, but does he believe it, or is this to allay the fear of the people?
The world holds its breath as the AI changes and distorts the world. All we can hope is that the creators of this technology believe it to be a force of good, not imminent destruction.
