Challenges and Responses for Public Policy and Investment
Convergence of artificial intelligence with the humanities and social sciences can help AI deal with major criticisms, both by humanizing it and by improving its social consequences. Every powerful technology can be used to cause harm, if it is in the hands of careless or evil people. A deep but largely unrecognized truth that I have been exploring in other publications is that many areas of science and technology have stalled and are achieving less progress than in the past, if any progress at all.1 Some journalists have noted this desperate situation, but most scientists and engineers seem to deny the truth, many of them flocking to artificial intelligence because it is currently ...
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