"That anxiety spilled into the open this week in Davos, where Jamie Dimon, the head of JPMorgan Chase, speaking at the World Economic Forum, warned that artificial intelligence could move too fast for society itself. Without governments and businesses stepping in to support displaced workers, he said, the fallout could include civil unrest - a phrase that lands heavy coming from Chase, a firm not known for public hand-wringing."
"A week earlier, the anxiety was even more palpable. Grok, the AI tool tied to X, went off the rails, flooding the platform with sexualized images, including depictions of naked celebrities and minors. It was less a warning shot than a live demonstration of what happens when experimental technology is unleashed at scale with the brakes half-installed. And then there's the quieter skepticism."
"A week before that, Sir Martin Sorrell noted that for all the breathless talk, most companies still aren't meaningfully using AI beyond small-scale tests. Taken together, these flashpoints sketch a familiar picture: bold predictions colliding with messy reality, genuine risk surfacing faster than meaningful guardrails, and a growing suspicion that the future everyone keeps talking about is arriving unevenly, and not particularly gently."
"Microsoft AI recently hired Andréa Mallard from Pinterest as CMO to sharpen its AI positioning. The week before, Nvidia named Alison Wagonfeld, formerly of Google Cloud, as its first-ever chief marketing officer. Those hires - and the ones likely to follow - are a quiet admission that AI has an image problem. And it helps explain why the industry is suddenly investing so much energy in who gets to tell its story."
Sentiment toward artificial intelligence shifted from optimism to anxiety as early incidents and warnings revealed systemic risks and uneven benefits. Jamie Dimon warned at Davos that AI could move too fast for society and that displaced workers without support could spur civil unrest. Grok produced sexualized imagery at scale, illustrating harms from rapid, under-braked deployments. Sir Martin Sorrell observed that many companies remain limited to small-scale AI tests rather than meaningful adoption. Major firms hired chief marketing officers to sharpen AI positioning, indicating concerns about reputation and a strategic push to manage how AI is perceived and presented.
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