10 Things that Will Happen When Artificial Intelligence Takes Over the World (Illustrated)

Meet my new robotic writing partner: ChatGPT. But I did the drawings myself (as far as you know, anyway). WRITTEN BY A.I., ILLUSTRATED BY PETER MOORE (PROBABLY)

I WAS OUT TO LUNCH WITH MY CREATIVE BROS YESTERDAY, drinking red wine and stoking paranoia about how artificial intelligence was going to f-up our creative lives. One pal and I seemed most at risk: We’re both illustrators and writers, and our computers watch us work and think—hell, I could do that. Meanwhile another friend, a clay-hound, said: “I haven’t seen a computer throw a pot, yet.” Then we unloaded on him about 3D printing, so he could feel included in the general despair.

The proximate cause of this unpleasant conversation was a piece that ran in the September issue of the Atlantic, called “Does Sam Altman know what he’s creating?” Altman, of course, is the visionary leader of Open AI, which unleashed ChatGPT on the world. Combined with the illustration robot Dall-E, these AI creators can do everything I do—writing, drawing, smirking—only 10,000 times as fast and consulting a billion data points and visuals.

100% human-rendered panic.

Kinda makes a guy want to order another re…