Rainie, director of Elon's Imagining the Digital Future Center, was among a group of experts who spoke with WUNC's "Due South."
Lee Rainie, director of Elon University’s Imagining the Digital Future Center, spoke with WUNC’s “Due South” about AI anxieties and how AI is shaping society.
Rainie spoke with “Due South” host Jeff Tiberii, along with Emmy Martin, technology reporter for the New York Times and Saif Khairat, chief AI officer, vice provost for AI and professor in the School of Nursing at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
During the interview, Tiberii asked the guests what their biggest ” anxieties ” around AI were as he discussed the hacking of the company Hugging Face by an AI agent.
“Anthropic … didn’t release a model. (They) only gave it a handful of very trusted technology allies to say, ‘This is so powerful now it’s discovering vulnerabilities on the internet and the basic systems that run on artificial intelligence, and we don’t trust everybody to have it,’ so we’re going to have them kick the tires,” said Rainie. “And it’s turned out that a lot of the things that you talked about, including the Hugging Face episode, including the other ways in which there are concerns about AI sort of began with that sense that there’s new gunslinging that’s not nearly as controllable, not nearly as reliable, not nearly as concerned with human wellbeing as the former models were.”