Three ways to regulate AI right now before it's too late

Artificial Intelligence has taken the world by storm. Since OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched in November 2022, it immediately became the fastest-growing app in the history of the Web, rocketing past 100 million monthly active users in two months. It has heralded an AI arms race between Microsoft (which invested billions in ChatGPT), Google (which launched its ChatGPT rival, Bard, on March 21) and other tech giants vying for AI supremacy, including Chinese media conglomerate Baidu. 

While this explosion of technology can produce significant upsides, including scientific breakthroughs, it also portends the end of critical thinking as we know it.

Critical thinking is a human skill painstakingly developed and experientially honed over our lives, beginning in childhood. It becomes our personal and constantly refining filter – for our opinions, thoughts, decisions, relationships, habits, everything. 

We are on the cusp of witnessing an entire generation of young people, and upcoming future generations, who will be fundamentally impaired in their nurturing of this vital skill. They will instead be dependent on AI for any task that requires a modicum of analytical thought, as within seconds it can generate coherent, remarkably human-like and uniquely customized responses to virtually any question or request.