The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence
Erik Brynjolfsson
Director
Stanford Digital Economy Lab
... The future is not preordained. We control the extent to which AI either expands human opportunity through augmentation or replaces humans through automation. We can work on challenges that are easy for machines and hard for humans, rather than hard for machines and easy for humans. The first option offers the opportunity of growing and sharing the economic pie by augmenting the workforce with tools and platforms. The second option risks dividing the economic pie among an ever-smaller number of people by creating automation that displaces ever-more types of workers. ...
More and more Americans, and indeed workers around the world, believe that while the technology may be creating a new billionaire class, it is not working for them. ...
The solution is not to slow down technology, but rather to eliminate or reverse the excess incentives for automation over augmentation. ...
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