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Fake news isn’t new. More than a century ago, newspapers owned by William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer helped stir up enthusiasm for war against Spain by hyping the dubious claim that Spanish agents had used explosives to sink the USS Maine in Havana Harbor. The cry of “Remember
It’s easy to decry cancel culture, but hard to turn it back. Thankfully, recent developments in my area of academic specialty—artificial intelligence (AI)—show that fighting cancel culture isn’t impossible.
The time to begin planning our response, and designing systems to give humanity a fighting chance, is now.
Thus, the ancient question of what separates humans from animals is the inverse of the more recent question of what separates humans from computers.
Things change once we leave the world of infallible humans who can create a perfectly benevolent general intelligence.
Is there a dark side to artificial intelligence? Many people, including famous science and technology leaders, assert that advancements in AI should be approached with extreme caution.
Concerns over the potential harm of new technologies are often sensible, but they should be grounded in fact, not flights of fearful fancy.