Brynjolfsson: Both optimists and pessimists wrongly assume technology acts without human agency
Eric Brynjolfsson · How AI is being used in energy, right now · Jun 22, 2023 · at 4:55
Eric Brynjolfsson, Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab, analyzes human agency and ethics in the deployment of advanced technologies.
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“Both the optimist and the pessimist make the same mistake, and that is that they think of the world as something that gets decided for us. They think that the technology is going to do something to us. The reality is that these technologies are tools. In fact, they're more powerful tools than we've ever had before. So by definition, that means we have more power to change the world than we ever had before.”
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