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Senators heard from prominent technology executives and others in private Wednesday on how to accomplish the potentially impossible task of passing bipartisan legislation within the next year that encourages the rapid development of artificial intelligence and mitigates its biggest risks._ by [Mustafa Suleyman](https://time.com/author/mustafa-suleyman/) ## Mustafa Suleyman Sep 1, 2023 11:05 AM UTC  We are still underestimating how widespread and revolutionary the changes from AI will truly be We are still underestimating how widespread and revolutionary the changes from AI will truly be Getty Images/Yuichiro Chino by [Mustafa Suleyman](https://time.com/author/mustafa-suleyman/) ## Mustafa Suleyman Sep 1, 2023 11:05 AM UTC We are about to see the greatest redistribution of power in history. Over millennia, humanity has been shaped by successive waves of technology. The discovery of fire, the invention of the wheel, the harnessing of electricity—all were transformational moments for civilization. All were waves of technology that started small, with a few precarious experiments, but eventually they broke across the world. These waves followed a similar trajectory: breakthrough technologies were invented, delivered huge value, and so they proliferated, became more effective, cheaper, more widespread and were absorbed into the normal, ever-evolving fabric of human life. We are now facing a new wave of technology, centered around [AI](https://time.com/6271657/a-to-z-of-artificial-intelligence/) but including synthetic biology, [quantum computing](https://time.com/6249784/quantum-computing-revolution/), and abundant new sources of energy. In many respects it will repeat this pattern. Yet it will also depart from it in crucial ways only now becoming clear. Amidst all the hype, the hope, the fear, I think the fundamentals are getting lost; the unique characteristics of this wave are getting missed in the noise. Understanding them, seeing what, exactly, is changing, is critical to understanding the future. ### More From TIME AI is different from previous waves of technology because of how it unleashes new powers and transforms existing power. This is the most underappreciated aspect of the technological revolution now underway. While all waves of technology create altered power structures in their wake, none have seen the raw proliferation of power like the one on its way. Think of it like this. Previous era’s most powerful technologies were generally reserved to a small capital rich elite or national governments. Building a steam powered factory, an aircraft carrier or a nuclear power plant were costly, difficult and immense endeavors. With the leading technologies of our time, that’s no longer going to be true. If the last great tech wave—computers and the internet—was about _broadcasting_ information, this new wave is all about _doing_. We are facing a step change in what’s possible for individual people to do, and at a previously [unthinkable pace](https://time.com/6300942/ai-progress-charts/). AI is becoming more powerful and radically cheaper by the month—what was computationally impossible, or would cost tens of millions of dollars a few years ago, is now widespread. These AIs will organize a retirement party and manage your diary, they will develop and execute business strategies, whilst designing new drugs to fight cancer. They will plan and run hospitals or invasions just as much as they will answer your email. Building an airline or instead grounding the entire fleet each becomes more achievable. Whether it’s commercial, religious, cultural, or military, democratic or authoritarian, every possible motivation you can think of can be dramatically enhanced by having cheaper power at your fingertips. These tools will be available to everyone, billionaires and street hustlers, kids in India and pensioners in Beverly Hills, a proliferation of not just technology but capability itself. **_Read More:_** [**_The Case Against AI Everything, Everywhere, All at Once_**](https://time.com/6302761/ai-risks-autonomy/) Power, the ability to accomplish goals, everywhere, in the hands of anyone who wants it. I’m guessing that’s going to be most people. This is far more empowering than the web ever was. And it’s coming faster than we can adequately prepare for. This is an age when the most powerful technologies are open-sourced in months, when millions have access to the cutting edge, and that cutting edge is the greatest force amplifier ever seen. This new era will create giant new businesses, empower a long tail of actors—good and bad—supercharge the power of some states, erode that of others. Whether a giant corporation or a start-up, an established party or an insurgent movement, a wild-eyed entrepreneur or a lone wolf with an ax to grind, here is an immense potential boost. Winners and losers will emerge quickly and unpredictably in this combustible atmosphere as power itself surges through the system. In short this represents the greatest reshuffling of power in history, all happening within the space of a few years. Those most comfortable today look vulnerable. Even as the discourse around AI has reached a fever pitch, those with power today, the professional classes, feel shockingly unprepared for the disruptions and new formations of power this tumult will bring. They—the doctors, lawyers, accountants, business VPs—will not emerge unscathed, and yet most I speak to are still incredibly blasé about the changes afoot. It’s not just automated call centers. This wave will fundamentally reshape and reorder society and it is those with most to lose, reliant on established capital, expertise, authority and security architectures, who are precisely the most exposed. I’ve seen this kind of willful blindness before. I call it “pessimism aversion”: a tendency to look away from sweeping technological change and what it really means. Until recently it was a common affliction of the Silicon Valley elite, many of whom pursued technological “disruption” without considering the likely outcomes. The arrival of generative AI and other AI products has started to change that. Although there is much further to go, leaders in Silicon Valley have begun taking a more proactive and precautionary approach to the development of the very largest AI models. But more widely it’s vital that societies facing this wave do not dismiss it as hot air, turn away, and get caught out. The preparation for what I call containment, a comprehensive program of managing these tools, needs to begin now. As we start to see power itself proliferating, its distribution and nature fundamentally changed, pessimism aversion is no answer. It’s time to confront the consequences of this shift in who can do what, when and how, understand what it means, and begin to plan for how we can control and contain it for everyone’s benefit. History can be a useful guide. But with AI, synthetic biology and the rest, we can be confident of one thing: we are facing the genuinely unprecedented. ## Transcript The we had a diverse group of participants, they talk to each other on varnish, everyone learned from everybody else. And so I am really pleased as I as some of the people who came out said it was his star. We got some consensus on some things. First, I asked everyone in the room is does, is government needed to play a role in regulating a and every single person raised their hands even though they had diverse views. So that gives us a message here that we have to try to act as difficult as the process may be. So that I can get the key point was really bad for us to have a referee, referee a sports game supposed games and then play games are better for us to take fairly. I think it is important for the for similar reasons to have a regulator regulator which you can think of, is referring to ensure that companies, take actions that are safe and in the interest we go public I think so they are going wrong or just fear. So we have to be proactive rather than reactive in the past and I will lie for this am. Text you send me samples of safety, belt seat belts, we're opposed by the order in school for a long time. Even though the date it was pretty clear that their stage radically improved that Justin is working. So Are we we don't have in that situation. We were fighting regulations even though the other things to elevate the questions are questions is really one of civilizational is. So it's just it's it's not like one group versus another one group of humans Old humans everywhere. Very fortunate to have that huge opportunities. During cancer education and huge wrist. And I think that was the big tension risk. People are, come on, civilization size wrist, maybe not so big in terms of percentage, but very smart. People have concerns about some very big risk. So and then the other tension, I think in the room there is open source. This is open to everybody versus Amore clothes system and it's the same issues. With regard to risk and reward. And then finally, one area of agreement American leadership. Critical won't happen without American leadership. You don't want China leading on this? I think that I would say unanimous. Regulations are on the table and I believe they are reality in this field. It's a brand-new field and I think need some guidance. 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