LLMs don’t manipulate atoms or bits; they manipulate us. And it’s not so much that GPT-5 will “decide” to wipe us out. Rather, the risk is that we will tear ourselves apart as a species by using Large Language Models for ignoble or nefarious ends.
“The most likely result of building a superhumanly smart AI, under anything remotely like the current circumstances,” Eliezer Yudkowsky’s wrote in Time magazine last week.
This article highlights non-technical skills like curiosity, observation, empathy, advocacy, visual communication, and collaboration that designers routinely use in their process to make a difference through design. AI can be used to augment designers’ workflow instead of replacing people.