While technological leaders continue to debate the potential impact of artificial intelligence on the labor market, a CEO claims that the greatest risk of technology could be the “dequement”.
In an interview with the Times of London, Arthur Mensch, the CEO of the company based in Paris, Mistral IA, rejected the idea that AI would lead to huge reductions in white collar jobs, saying that the more important risk was that people could gradually become more lazy because they were relying more and more on technology to search for information.
Addressing the point of sale at the Vivatech conference in Paris earlier this month, Mensch, who co-founded the developer of large open source models alongside Guillaume Lample and Timoté Lacroix in April 2023, said that a key means to avoid this would be to ensure that humans were actively involved in the exam and criticism of the AI.
“It is a risk that you can avoid, if you think about the point of view of the design, if you make sure that you have the right human contribution, that you keep the human active,” he said, adding that he was that it was that important humans did not take the production of AI as “the truth”.
“You want people to continue to learn,” he said. “Be able to synthesize information and criticize information is a central element of learning.”
Mensch, a former Google Deepmind researcher, has also responded to recent warnings that AI is a threat to white collar jobs, including the anthropogenic CEO Dario Amodei, who recently said that AI could replace half of all white -range collar jobs within five years.
“I think it’s really a overestimation,” said Mensch, adding that he believed that Umodei liked to “spread fear” of AI as a marketing tactic.
Instead, Mensch said he thought AI would change white collar jobs. “I expect that we have more relational tasks because it is not something that you can easily replace,” he said.
