How innovation reshaped human life in just a few generations
Technological progress vastly improved human wellbeing and requires deliberate choices, belief, and active effort to continue and accelerate into the future.
Early internet polarization between skeptical caution and exuberant prediction mirrors current polarized responses to artificial intelligence, repeating similar mistakes about pace and impact of change.
Columbia tries using AI to cool off student tensions
Columbia is testing Sway, an AI debate tool that pairs students with opposing views and uses an AI guide to improve reasoning in contentious discussions.