"Reasonable people from all sides of the current AI conversation agree that this particular paradigm shift is just different. If you don't believe that, record 20 minutes of your own stream of consciousness with an application like Otter and ask it to summarize your thoughts. Or download RunwayML and have it turn photos of your friends into videos of them doing the tango."
"These tools - and countless others - offer an endless array of capabilities to test the limits of what humanity has created in the centuries to date. Some of it just plain blows the mind. But while we're busy having our minds blown, we're also drifting into something of a context-distortion field. If you never watched chef and food documentarian Anthony Bourdain, he said "context and memory play powerful roles in all the truly great meals in one's life.""
"Leaving aside the oversimplification that "AI" is a singular technology (it isn't), it's long past time for the "AI is eating the world" bumper stickers to evolve into how we manage this wave of change so it helps people, serves society and protects both. Here we need some basic parameters. First, everyone should get AI. Everyone should work and practice with it."
Powerful new AI tools offer astonishing capabilities, enabling speech-to-summary, image-to-video, and many creative and productive applications. The rapid adoption of these tools creates a context-distortion effect that can obscure long-term societal implications. Broad access to AI is essential so people can participate in the next wave of economic change, and to avoid deepening inequalities exacerbated by infrastructure gaps like lack of electricity in parts of Africa. Policymakers, businesses, and communities must develop parameters, invest in infrastructure and education, and create policies that channel AI-generated wealth into widespread opportunity while protecting vulnerable populations and social goods.
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