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AI as Normal Technology
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception.
These include the systemic entrenchment of bias and discrimination, massive job losses in specific occupations, worsening labor conditions, increasing inequality, concentration of power, erosion of social trust, pollution of the information ecosystem, decline of the free press, democratic backsliding, mass surveillance, and enabling authoritarianism. We also thank the participants at the workshop, including Alex Abdo, Borhane Blili-Hamelin, Kevin Feng, Henry Farrell, Katy Glenn-Bass, Atoosa Kasirzadeh, Sydney Levine, Nik Marda, Deirdre Mulligan, and Daniel Susskind. We are fortunate to have received feedback on drafts from many other people, including Shazeda Ahmed, Dean Ball, Nicholas Carlini, Alan Chan, Ajeya Cotra, Justin Curl, Jeffrey Ding, Benjamin Edelman, Jobst Heitzig, Noam Kolt, Mihir Kshirsagar, Timothy B. Lee, Steve Newman, David Robinson, Matthew Salganik, Zachary Siegel, Ollie Stephenson, and Zach Vertin.
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