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Let’s not make the same mistakes with AI that we made with social media | Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies
Social media’s unregulated evolution over the past decade holds a lot of lessons that apply directly to AI companies and technologies.
The incentives in the tech sector are so spectacularly, blindingly powerful that they have enabled six megacorporations (Amazon, Apple, Google, Facebook parent Meta, Microsoft, and Nvidia) to command a trillion dollars each of market value—or more. The expansive role of these technologies in our daily lives gives for-profit corporations opportunities to exert control over more aspects of society, and that exposes us to the risks arising from their incentives and decisions. And with a looming presidential election, conflict spreading alarmingly across Asia and Europe, and a global climate crisis, it’s easy to imagine that we won’t get our arms around AI any faster than we have (not) with social media.
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