‘Participatory AI governance mechanisms should be established immediately in cities, sectors and high-stakes domains. … Policies must redirect AI toward augmentation rather than replacement.’
“A crisis facing human-centered design that I have been exploring in some of my recent work – in which the discipline’s success in removing interaction barriers has paradoxically led to…
‘Inhabitants of tomorrow will look back at this moment not only as the era when AI arrived but as the time when we evolved the partnership between human and artificial intelligence they will inherit.’
“AI systems will begin to play a much more significant role in shaping our decisions, work and daily lives. It is already happening, and it will continue, with both increasing…
‘The current form of AI can actively weaken every characteristic of human resilience; in some cases, it seems intentionally designed to do so.’
“Here’s the dilemma: It’s highly likely that AI systems will play a much more significant role in shaping our decisions, work and daily lives over the next few decades, but…
Resilience ‘requires clear limits, enforceable governance frameworks and meaningful avenues for contesting automated decisions’; ‘red lines’ preserve accountability, agency and democracy.
“Artificial intelligence systems are already embedded in decisions that affect access to employment, credit, housing, public benefits, education and political participation. As these systems become more capable and more widely…
The future is not determined by AI’s capabilities – it is determined by the structures we build around it. We now have tools capable of generating abundance – IF we design systems so they distribute it.
“Glowering doomers predict that vast cyber-minds – cold and unsympathetic – will crush old-style, legacy humanity. Or else render us irrelevant. Moot. Meanwhile, the geniuses who are fostering the artificial…
‘Coping means treating AI not as a gadget, but as governance.’ The ability to appeal high-stakes AI-mediated decisions, an ‘authenticity infrastructure,’ redundant systems, and more are required.
“AI systems will play a much more significant role in shaping our decisions, work and daily lives, not because ‘AI takes over,’ but because institutions will embed AI into the…
Coping requires literacy; regulatory frameworks; community data governance; labor organizing among data workers; indigenous data sovereignty movements asserting control over knowledge systems.
“AI systems will play a much more significant role in shaping our decisions, work and daily lives, but the transformation will be profoundly unequal. This inequality operates within societies as…
‘I’d argue that resilience becomes much more a matter of intentional design than brilliant engineering at this point. … It may be time to establish a Humans Union; I’m only half-joking.’
“It seems clear that, unless we hit a huge unforeseen limit on the further development of AI technologies, they are going to play a much more significant role in our…
AI is the world’s largest Magic 8 Ball, with a polyhedron of answers, each ready to help. ‘We need personal AI to know our natural and digital selves … and participate with full agency in digital society.’
“We are digital beings in a digital world. That’s the main thing. And this world is still very new. We’ve operated in the natural world for as long as we’ve…
‘Motors stole silence from our world and electric light severed our intimate connection with all that exists in darkness beyond our illuminated bubble. What will AI take? Solitude.’
“Every technological advance conceals a consequent loss, but the novelty is always so glittering and the loss so gradual, we never notice what was lost until long after it is…