AUG 2020 | ISSUE 7
In This Issue: A Future with AI
Lirra is a BIG eater
All this talk about robot lions has gotten Lirra worried about them taking over his job! So he curated a few reads to soothe his fears. After all, knowledge is power!
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An accessible synthesis of ethical issues raised by artificial intelligence that moves beyond hype and nightmare scenarios to address concrete questions. AI raise complex ethical issues that are the subject of ongoing debate.
To provide a more proactive and pragmatic perspective, this article highlights the complementarity of humans and AI and examines how each can bring their own strength in organizational decision-making processes typically characterized by uncertainty, complexity, and equivocality.
This work covers four broad themes: AI as a general purpose technology; the relationships between AI, growth, jobs, and inequality; regulatory responses to changes brought on by AI; and the effects of AI on the way economic research is conducted.
The real danger is not that computers are smarter than us, but that we think computers are smarter than us. The AI Delusion explains why we should not be intimidated into thinking that computers are infallible, that data-mining is knowledge discovery, and that black boxes should be trusted.
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