The story of AI might be this: The good, the bad and the end of the world. Resilience will depend on how soon humans are required to start detecting and dealing with dangers before they cause harm.
“Sewell Setzer was 14 years old. For 10 months he’d been talking to a chatbot on Character.AI, a virtual companion modelled on a ‘Game of Thrones’ character. When he told…
The greatest challenge will not be the presence of AI itself, but preservation of autonomy, transparency, trust when recommendations are constant, content is difficult to verify and surveillance is technically trivial.
“Artificial intelligence systems will play a much more significant role in shaping our decisions, work and everyday lives in the coming years. This shift will not happen abruptly, as a…
‘The issue here goes far beyond regulating, for example, deepfakes or disinformation. It goes to the heart of reorienting society to the changes in lives, the redesign and loss of jobs and perhaps the loss of meaning that will come from AI.’
“There could be an increasing division between the set of people who learn to master AI, use it effectively and efficiently and profit from its deployment and another – probably…
‘As we say in Africa, when two elephants fight, the grass suffers.’ As AI advances, there will be ‘pushback, pain and correction before real stability emerges.’
“First of all, it will be kind of a landslide. Advanced AI’s arrival is going to be a very overwhelming reality. Different from although somewhat the same as previous technological…
We must invest in human-resilience infrastructure: Understanding the context of AI is everything. ‘It is the difference between being unaware we are vulnerable and capturing its benefits.’
“Understanding the context of AI is everything. It is the difference between lacking an awareness of our vulnerabilities – such as cognitive offloading, motivation erosion and dependency – or, instead,…
‘Humans could fall so far behind future AIs or AI-augmented minds that they lose via natural selection.1) Take this seriously. 2) Maintain wide error margins. 3) Focus on building adaptive capacity.’
“The media and information environment is confused and perspectives on AI vary wildly. Many people don’t think at all about the future of AI. Many more people simply imagine that…
People will delegate crucial qualitative life decisions to AI, including how they relate to others. The loneliness crisis will worsen. Look to ‘dumb homes’ and‘chaos engineering’ to help build resilience.
“The path of least resistance doesn’t bode well for humans in an AI-saturated world. This will challenge human resilience due to their over-reliance on external dependencies that are prone to…
‘Organizations cannot be resilient if they don’t focus their policies and practices on supporting three basic human psychological needs – competence, autonomy and relatedness – in authentic ways.’
“The spread of AI into core tasks of decision-making has the capacity to fundamentally undermine societal resilience. A helpful lens for examining this problem is self-determination theory, which identifies competence,…
‘Society is moving into a world that lacks checks and balances, in which commerce provides the infrastructure for our private and public lives.’ This human failure jeopardizes the human future.
“In my view, society is moving into a world that lacks checks and balances in which commerce provides the infrastructure for our private and public lives and in which trust,…
‘Humans-first’ technological design and governance are urgently needed resilience scaffolding. These systems significantly impact humans’ agency, cohesion, understanding and ability to act collectively.
“Over the past year, conversations about digital well-being evolved in a variety of ways, in part as a response to the increase in AI use. Many were initially framed around…