Researcher Stresses Human Agency Over AI Inevitability Narratives
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4. AI is not "advancing at a rapid pace" etc., *we* are advancing it. The tech industry is attributing agency to AI while minimizing our own own agency. It's up to us what happens. The rhetoric of inevitability and assertions erasing human agency lead to harmful outcomes. /9
AI capabilities are not just things that are happening. They are coming from the situations and technologies that we are creating. It's up to us to maintain control and foresee the outcomes -- and that requires recognizing that we're in control in the first place. /end
5. We can have positive outcomes from the diverse set of things we're calling "AI" now. But one of the fundamental keys to ensuring that is realizing that *we* are creating it, *we* are providing it with autonomy, *we* are rapidly proliferating it etc. /10