Of course, there are major ethical issues to work out—leaps forward in technology often walk a fine line between deeply-impactful and dystopian. Among the questions we need to figure out:

• Who is responsible for AI’s mistakes?


• Who is the creator of an AI work? Is it the AI? The developers? The person who wrote the prompt? The people whose work was

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The tendency to think of A.I. as a magical problem solver is indicative of a desire to avoid the hard work that building a better world requires. That hard work will involve things like addressing wealth inequality and taming capitalism. For technologists, the hardest work of all—the task that they most want to avoid—will be questioning the

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In AI, we have something genuinely new - a category of technology that doesn’t fit our existing frames - and we’re trying to describe it with words inherited from the past. Every term we reach for either undersells the thing or oversells it.

“Assistant” makes it sound like a slightly upgraded Clippy. “Tool” makes it sound like a hammer.... See more