Could AI drive transformative social progress? What would this require?
The potential societal impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) and related technologies are so vast, they are often likened to those of past transformative technological changes such as the industrial or agricultural revolutions. They are also deeply uncertain, presenting a wide range of possibilities for good or ill – as indeed the diverse technologies lumped under the term AI are themselves diffuse, labile, and uncertain.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) augurs changes in society at least as large as those of the industrial revolution. But much of the policy debate seems narrow – extrapolating current trends and asking how we might manage their rough edges. This essay instead explores how AI might be used to enable fundamentally different future worlds and how one such future might be enabled by AI algorithms with different goals and functions than those most common today.
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