Redesigning AI
Artificial intelligence will not create superintelligence anytime soon. But it is already making huge advances—revolutionizing medicine and transport, transforming jobs and markets, and reshaping the fabric of social life. At the same time, the promises of AI have been increasingly overshadowed by its perils, from automation and disinformation to powerful new forms of bias and surveillance. Reckoning with these threats to work, democracy, and justice, Redesigning AI asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.

Leading off a forum, economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu argues that though the challenges are dire, the future is not inevitable. Respondents debate the precise role new technology plays in economic inequality, the wide range of algorithmic harms facing workers and citizens, and other concrete steps that can be taken to ensure a just future for AI. Other contributors explore the impact of new technology in domains from medicine to carework, the nature of skills training in a rapidly changing economy, and the ethical case for not building certain forms of AI in the first place. Together they sketch an urgent vision for redirecting the course of technological change for good.

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Redesigning AI
Artificial intelligence will not create superintelligence anytime soon. But it is already making huge advances—revolutionizing medicine and transport, transforming jobs and markets, and reshaping the fabric of social life. At the same time, the promises of AI have been increasingly overshadowed by its perils, from automation and disinformation to powerful new forms of bias and surveillance. Reckoning with these threats to work, democracy, and justice, Redesigning AI asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.

Leading off a forum, economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu argues that though the challenges are dire, the future is not inevitable. Respondents debate the precise role new technology plays in economic inequality, the wide range of algorithmic harms facing workers and citizens, and other concrete steps that can be taken to ensure a just future for AI. Other contributors explore the impact of new technology in domains from medicine to carework, the nature of skills training in a rapidly changing economy, and the ethical case for not building certain forms of AI in the first place. Together they sketch an urgent vision for redirecting the course of technological change for good.

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Redesigning AI

Redesigning AI

by Daron Acemoglu, et al
Redesigning AI

Redesigning AI

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Overview

Artificial intelligence will not create superintelligence anytime soon. But it is already making huge advances—revolutionizing medicine and transport, transforming jobs and markets, and reshaping the fabric of social life. At the same time, the promises of AI have been increasingly overshadowed by its perils, from automation and disinformation to powerful new forms of bias and surveillance. Reckoning with these threats to work, democracy, and justice, Redesigning AI asks what can be done to redirect AI for the good of everyone.

Leading off a forum, economist and best-selling author Daron Acemoglu argues that though the challenges are dire, the future is not inevitable. Respondents debate the precise role new technology plays in economic inequality, the wide range of algorithmic harms facing workers and citizens, and other concrete steps that can be taken to ensure a just future for AI. Other contributors explore the impact of new technology in domains from medicine to carework, the nature of skills training in a rapidly changing economy, and the ethical case for not building certain forms of AI in the first place. Together they sketch an urgent vision for redirecting the course of technological change for good.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781946511621
Publisher: Haymarket Books
Publication date: 05/25/2021
Series: Boston Review / Forum
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.41(d)

About the Author

Daron Acemoglu is Institute Professor in the Department of Economics at MIT and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is coauthor of Why Nations Fail and The Narrow Corridor.

Table of Contents

Editors' Note Joshua Cohen Deborah Chasman 6

Forum

Redesigning AI Daron Acemoglu 9

Forum Responses

Centering Workers' Power and Rights Andrea Dehlendorf Ryan Gerety 43

The Pandemic Bolstered Support for Necessary Reforms Molly Kinder 49

Technology-Focused Solutions Won't Work Aaron Benanav 55

Decolonizing AI Shakir Mohamed William S. Isaac Marie-Therese Png 60

The Problem Is Wages, Not Jobs Erik Brynjolfsson 65

Beyond the Automation-Only Approach Lama Nachman 71

Between Dystopia and Utopia Kate Crawford 76

The Frontier of AI Science Should Be in Universities Rob Reich 82

The Means of Prediction Rediet Abebe Maximilian Kasy 87

It Is Not Too Late Daron Acemoglu 92

Essays

Stop Building Bad AI Annette Zimmermann 100

Workplace Training in the Age of AI Nichola Lowe 111

Medicine's Machine Learning Problem Rachel Thomas 127

The Past and Future of AI Kenneth Taylor 139

Coding Care Anna Romina Guevarra 163

Contributors 173

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