1、Executive SummaryWill generative artificial intelligence usher in a golden age of productivity or destroy millions of livelihoods across the global economy?Will it set people onto new paths of personal fulfillment or lead them into cul-de-sacs of loneliness and isolation?Will it lift humanity to new

2、 heights or sow the seeds of our collective destruction?Depending on whom you ask,the answer to all those questions is yes.In the 14 months since the launch of ChatGPT,it hasnt become clear exactly how generative AI will transform the world,only that it will with both positive and negative effects o

3、n individuals,families,socioeconomic groups,businesses,industries,and societies as it revolutionizes workplaces and reorders personal lives.Many breakthrough technologies come with pitfalls.Fire allowed humans to gather at night but also burned villages.The automobile revolutionized mobility but bro

4、ught traffic fatalities.The internet connected people instantly but gave new tools to criminals.A key difference between generative AI and earlier innovations is that its very creators are warning of the potential downsides.The dual strands of promise and peril are woven throughout AI companies them

5、selves;look no further than the battle for control of OpenAI for an example of the deep ambivalence that generative AI is producing.But there is opportunity in the ambiguity.The starting gun of the generative AI race was fired a long time ago,but ChatGPT brought a rush of new companies and countries

6、 into the race.Business and government leaders will decide how much of the development will be open-sourced and transparent versus closed-sourced and proprietary.Regulators will decide the pace and breadth of the action.Consumers and workers will be central in the technologys adoption and will help