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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.
Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, journalist, blogger, and advocate for liberalizing copyright laws, online privacy and ethical technology use. His latest novel, Attack Surface, follows a programmer for a surveillance company who assuages her conscience by helping dissidents evade detection. When the tools she’s designed are used to target old friends, she’s forced to choose where her allegiances lie.
Attack Surface is a compelling story of a tech worker confronting the ethics of her work that asks its readers to do the same. Join us for an open Q&A on his work!
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