"AI will help us navigate the immense amounts of information and data created every day in the modern world, but it will also make it easier for bad actors to swamp the infosphere with disinformation. AI can enable real-time translations to spread ideas seamlessly across language barriers, but it may also make the marketplace of ideas less pluralistic by concentrating power in a few individuals."
"But this framing doesn't match reality. In a recent interview, Bruce Schneier, a cryptographer and computer security professional, reminded me that AI isn't a monolithic force - one meta-technology to rule them all. AI instead represents "a hundred different things" that can be used in "a hundred different ways." "It really shows the promise and the peril of the technology," he says. "There are so many things that it can do, so many ways it changes existing things we're doing.""
AI is not a single monolithic force but a collection of varied technologies that can be applied in many different ways. The technology offers both promise and peril, enabling information navigation, real-time translation, and productivity gains while also facilitating disinformation and power concentration. The impact of AI depends largely on choices about implementation, the problems selected for AI solutions, and governance structures. Democratic participation and policy choices shape whether AI makes institutions more representative or less. Outcomes will be nuanced and contingent, not predetermined by either utopian or dystopian narratives.
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