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AI as Normal Technology
Book • 2024
‘AI as Normal Technology’ is an essay, ongoing book project, and newsletter by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor that offers a new intellectual framework for understanding AI. It argues that AI should be viewed as a transformative but normal technology, similar to electricity or the internet, rather than as an impending superintelligence or existential threat.
The work is based on extensive research into the limits of AI prediction, risks of predictive decision-making, reproducibility issues in machine learning, and the societal impacts of AI algorithms.
It emphasizes that AI’s societal effects will unfold over decades, shaped by institutional and social factors, and that policy responses should be grounded in historical lessons from past technological revolutions rather than fear-driven drastic interventions.
The book has been recognized by Nature as one of the 10 best books of 2024 and by Forbes as a must-read tech book of 2024.
The work is based on extensive research into the limits of AI prediction, risks of predictive decision-making, reproducibility issues in machine learning, and the societal impacts of AI algorithms.
It emphasizes that AI’s societal effects will unfold over decades, shaped by institutional and social factors, and that policy responses should be grounded in historical lessons from past technological revolutions rather than fear-driven drastic interventions.
The book has been recognized by Nature as one of the 10 best books of 2024 and by Forbes as a must-read tech book of 2024.
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Can AI Be Normal and Transformative at the Same Time?
