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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The Bitter Lesson versus The Garbage Can

Does process matter? We are about to find out.

Ethan Mollick

Jul 28

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One of my favorite academic papers about organizations is by Ruthanne Huising, and it tells the story of teams that were assigned to create process maps of their company, tracing what the... See more