Gordon-Levitt Shifts AI Focus From Existential Risk to Human Empathy and Corporate Power
Joseph Gordon-Levitt, the UN’s first global advocate for human-centric digital governance, argues that public anxiety about AI should focus on the people building the technology rather than the technology itself. In a recent interview with The New York Times, he stated that AI models are being trained to 'hijack intimacy' and that the primary risks are the decline of democracy and human empathy, not the extinction of humanity. He emphasized that AI is fundamentally human-produced data and called for better communication and regulation to prevent tech companies from designing the future solely for profit.
