Will AI push humans aside, or just give us new tools? Six tech experts weigh in

New technologies can be liberating - for their first users. But as any new tech becomes widely adopted, 'it starts to impose its requirements on our society,' changing culture and even laws. — Image by rawpixel.com on Freepik

PHILADELPHIA: "Good vs. Evil" was the stark subtitle of the artificial-intelligence (AI) panel earlier this month at Philadelphia Alliance for Capital and Technologies' yearly Phorum conclave at Penn State Great Valley.

The tech-business group summoned technologists to make sense of the disorientingly rapid growth of programs like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Microsoft's Bard, which process online sources to create quick, detailed narratives from a user's questions. They are designed to "learn" from repeated use, improving over time.