“Can we have pro-human AI?”

This talk argues that advances in generative AI are compatible with a pro-human direction of future technology. This means, in particular, production technologies that increase the contribution of workers to productivity, and communication technologies that boost human agency and democratic participation. However, we are currently on a path leading in the opposite direction-anti-worker production technologies and anti-democratic communication technologies. This is both because of distorted incentives and priorities within the tech industry and also because of some of the architectural features of leading generative AI models. The talk concludes with some policy suggestions to help engineer a course correction towards pro-human AI.
Speaker: Daron Acemoğlu, MIT Economics, USA
Moderator: Moshe Y. Vardi, USA
The Digital Humanism Lecture Series is organized by the Faculty of Informatics of TU Wien and TU Wien's Center for Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (CAIML).
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Digital Europe Programme under Grant Agreement No. 101123121 (EURIDICE). This output reflects the consortium’s view and the European Commission cannot be held responsible for any use that may be made of the information contained therein. euridice.eu/

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