🔗 AI as Normal Technology
Finally made it to read (listen) to this one, after seeing it referred to by seemingly everyone whose views on AI I respect. Well worth the time. Particularly the first part (regulatory and risks leave me a bit colder), it provides such a useful framing to about AI as a rather than the technology.
Metadata
- Author: Arvind Narayanan, Sayash Kapoor
- Category: article
- URL: www.normaltech.ai/p/ai-as-n…
Highlights
AI as normal technology is a worldview that stands in contrast to the worldview of AI as impending superintelligence.
[…] we assume that, despite the obvious differences between AI and past technologies, they are sufficiently similar that we should expect well-established patterns, such as diffusion theory to apply to AI, in the absence of specific evidence to the contrary.