AI for Good: The Promise and the Peril
There is much discussion about the potential of advances in AI to transform the human experience and improve human wellbeing
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There is much discussion about the potential of advances in AI to transform the human experience and improve human wellbeing
Music is intertwined with human emotion, memory, and identity, making it a powerful medium for affective experience and regulation.

Music is intertwined with human emotion, memory, and identity, making it a powerful medium for affective experience and regulation.
The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
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The possibility that AI will automate most cognitive labor is worth taking seriously. How should we adapt to this transformation? I start from the perspective, articulated in the essay “AI as normal technology”, that the true bottlenecks lie downstream of capabilities and that AI’s impacts will unfold gradually over decades. If this is true, there are major gaps in our current evidence infrastructure, because it over-emphasizes the capability layer.
The AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.

The AI Index, currently in its ninth year, tracks, collates, distills, and visualizes data relating to artificial intelligence.