The More Workers Use AI, The More They Fear for Their Jobs

Plus OpenAI's new safety plan

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Nathaniel Whittemore
December 19, 2023

The AI Breakdown First Five - Tuesday December 19, 2023

Today on the First Five:

  • 5. AI Can Find Location from Photos

  • 4. Bringing AI to Cars

  • 3. The More Workers Use AI, the More Nervous They Get

  • 2. OpenAI’s New Safety Plan

  • 1. Accenture Says Companies Not Ready for AI

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5. AI Can Find Location from Photos

Hello privacy concerns! A new project called Predicting Image Geolocations (PIGEON) from a team of Stanford grad students showed that when AI was presented with personal photos it had never seen, it was able to accurately guess the locations a majority of the time.

4. Bringing AI to Cars

Cars are one of the areas where “real world AI” makes it to, well, the real world. Just ask Elon Musk! TomTom and Microsoft are teaming up to announce a “fully integrated, AI powered conversational automotive assistant.” Because Elon can’t have all the fun.

3. The More Workers Use AI, the More Nervous They Get

A new CNBC study deeply resonates. The study was focused on AI in the workplace. It found that 72% of employees who used AI at work found it made them more productive. What’s more interesting, while 35% of workers who didn’t use AI are worried about its impact on their job, 60% of those who use AI regularly are.

2. OpenAI’s New Safety Plan

In the wake of the board-Sam Altman kerfluffle, OpenAI is working to update its approach to governance. It just released its updated preparedness plan, which includes creating a new safety advisory group and empowering the board to reverse safety-related decisions made by the company’s executives.

1. Accenture Says Companies Not Ready for AI

Accenture is no stranger to AI, as it spends billions to retrofit its operations to help clients with the new frontier. That said, the company’s CEO Julie Sweet told the FT that she thinks most companies aren’t ready, due to a combination of incomplete data approaches and security risks.

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