'I thought somebody had shown me an alien' - Comedy writer Simon Rich warns there’s a secret side of AI

Simon Rich did not believe artificial intelligence could ever take his job as a screenwriter, humorist and novelist. Then, a friend at OpenAI showed him an AI model that stunned him — one that was more creative and more problematic than ChatGPT. On POLITICO Tech, Rich tells Steven Overly why he now feels a need to alert others about the possible future AI will wrought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices