The United States now has a president and vice president who agree that artificial intelligence is good − and recognize that America needs to lead the world in development of the technology. 0:001:56 Is artificial intelligence good or evil? That is the question I had to answer a few years ago. I was speaking on a panel, and AI had just burst onto the scene so interest was high. Surely, I thought, won’t everyone agree that AI is good ? I couldn’t have been more wrong. I was the only one who made a forceful defense of this technology, arguing that it could ensure American economic dominance and uplift the less fortunate by disrupting elite institutions and industries. Everyone else said the opposite − that AI threatened the vulnerable […]
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