This week in AI, Natalie and Kobi tackle some hefty potential societal impacts.

They talk about the strange proposition of a young woman "cloning" herself via chatGPT to outsource her "girlfriend experience"; to celebrated American science fiction writer Ted Chiang writing about whether AI is set to become something of a consultant or third party for problem solving; to ex-DeepMind co-founder Moustafa Suleyman calling on governments to find solutions for people who lose their jobs to AI, and the links between all of these activities.

Links:

https://fortune.com/2023/05/09/snapchat-influencer-launches-carynai-virtual-girlfriend-bot-openai-gpt4/

https://www.newyorker.com/science/allans-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-04-28/stage-three-tax-cuts-to-scale/102268304

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/may/29/fully-automated-luxury-communism-aaron-bastani-review

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/06/give-us-fully-automated-luxury-communism/592099/