The chair of UC Berkeley's history department has spoken out about the threats and promises of artificial intelligence and what we collectively need to do to avoid repeating mistakes in regulating technological changes in the past.
Others have compared the challenges of AI to those of nuclear power but Cathryn Carson says a better comparison might be plastic.
According to an article in Berkeley News, Carson said that plastic ”improved lives in countless ways, (but it) is also posing serious problems in the form of pollution. These kinds of unanticipated downstream problems are how we should be thinking about AI.”
Carson described the need to essentially democratize the new technological frontier of AI. “If we want a world in which AI works to serve people more broadly — besides those actors who have the resources and the power to create it — that means figuring out how things can shift away the concentrations of power and resources in the hands of people who already have it, or who can purchase AI-based services and use them for their own interests.”
She also recognizes that none of this will be easy.
“Systemic change is hard, not just because it's complex, but because it's resisted. I would think about the challenges that are in front of us, when it comes to changing how our society allows data to circulate, as being in a way comparable to other challenges, like challenges around fossil fuel use and climate change. Or challenges around our dependence on plastics and the impacts downstream that we're now seeing. Just because problems are hard doesn't mean we don't get started.”
There’s much more in the article, which is called “UC Berkeley historian of science ponders AI's past, present and future.”
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