Ali Alkhatib, an independent AI-ethics researcher, is shown in a blue shirt underneath Insider's AI 100 series logo.
Ali Alkhatib, an independent AI-ethics researcher
  • Ali Alkhatib, an AI-ethics researcher, says large AI systems should not work for everything.
  • Companies make grand claims about what their models can do, but this can cause significant harm.
  • The nonconsensual power dynamics in which big AI is produced risk degrading the internet.

AI ethicists are exhausted. The meteoric rise of companies such as OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and countless startups is giving a headache to the people who study and set standards for the technology.