Abstract
Advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have prompted extensive and public concerns about this technology’s capacity to contribute to the spread of misinformation, algorithmic bias, and cybersecurity breaches and to pose, potentially, existential threats to humanity. We suggest that although these threats are both real and important to address, the heightened attention to AI’s harms has distracted from human beings’ outsized role in perpetuating these same harms. We suggest the need to recalibrate standards for judging the dangers of AI in terms of their risks relative to those of human beings. Further, we suggest that, if anything, AI can aid human beings in decision making aimed at improving social equality, safety, productivity, and mitigating some existential threats.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 289-292 |
| Number of pages | 4 |
| Journal | Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists |
| Volume | 79 |
| Issue number | 5 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2023 |
Funding
Moran Cerf received funding from the Carnegie Corporation of New York (Grant ID: G-19-57248). Adam Waytz received no specific grant from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.
Keywords
- Artificial intelligence
- algorithmic bias
- cybersecurity
- ethics
- existential risk
- nuclear decision making
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Political Science and International Relations