Unless you've been stranded on a desert island for years, you've heard a lot about the potential impact of artificial intelligence.  When ChatGPT appeared on the scene in late 2022, people were concerned.  Would AI write students' papers?  Would jobs disappear?  And much more.

On a podcast about the ethics of AI recorded at the Aspen Ideas Festival this summer, Vilas Dhar, president of the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation spoke reassuringly on this topic.

He asks, “What kind of society do we want to build and how will AI get us there?”  He suggests that this is a time for introspection.  We need to change from focusing on what technology does “to” us—like getting us to shop on line—to what it does “for” us—helping us get access to health care, for example. Or how it can help things to be done “by” us— like sharing our ideas/data with policy makers.

AI may make us more productive, but it is not a replacement for us.

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