Making sense of AI. What will it mean for our society and economy? What will it mean for humanity and the living? Should we embrace it or shut it down?
See https://ai.lifeitself.org/
Core question: what are the implications of AI for existential risk, for societies and economies over the next 5y – and what should be done about it?
☠️ Is there existential risk and how do we address that?
What is happening technologically with AI?
How likely is it? Why
What do we do about it?
We can control it (not lights out …)
How does open up the solution space? (for a second renaissance)
But it exacerbates polycrisis and metacrisis ..?
Why is there existential risk?
What new governance forms are supported / enabled by AI?
🏛️ Governance
How does AI support authoritarianism and endanger democracy (and vice versa)?
Sensemaking and public sphere (cf polarization)
Will AI take all jobs? How fast?
What will that mean? e.g. UBI
📉 Economy and jobs: that does this mean for jobs and the economy?
What will it mean for education and childhood
What informs decision making between humans and AI?
AI and Consciousness (disembodied-ness)
Technology
Institutions
Culture