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American Philosophical Society @amphilsociety.bsky.social
Jul 8, 03:21 AM

AI has become a fact of life, but it comes with real dangers. This week’s Meeting Talk Monday comes from Ece Kamar, Managing Director of the Microsoft AI Frontiers Lab, who shares how we can meet the challenges and dangers of AI through new methods and collaboration. https://bit.ly/4azUVZs

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"By the time I finish this talk, the talk is gonna be out of date with the speed of innovation and the speed of deployment that we have in this technology. Currently, CHPT has around 800 million users. More than 80% of enterprises are using generative AI one way or another. Just imagine for a second that the system you have on your computer is gonna be able to send a message to my agent to schedule a meeting. But it's not gonna stop there. There are gonna be agents representing sellers and service providers and information providers. And these agents are gonna start interacting with each other to control how we buy things, how we access information and become the interface to technology. This is not a speculation. This is what's happening today with CHPT, starting to incorporate third party agents already into the CHPT ecosystem. This is gonna change things in very serious ways. When we are thinking about ecosystems, ecosystems create new market mechanisms. They create new economic models and they change power structures. They control what people buy, what people see and how they could be manipulated to make more money. And again, this is happening. It is not a speculation about the future. The promising side is that we have seen this in the past. We have seen the emergence of ecosystems in the past and we did not get it right, but this might be an opportunity to get it right this time because maybe we can learn lessons from the past. So what happened at the emergence of internet? There was a lot of promise. We thought that people would be connected to each other. There would be democratization of information. But what ended up happening, we got new economical models. We get the attention economy. Our attention and cognition got commercialized by technology companies. A small number of companies started controlling what we buy, what we see. So the question is, how can we work together to get the agentic economy right? We have an opportunity to create a different kind of an economic model, but if we don't get it right, there is also dangers. There could be new monopolies. The income gap and the power gap may increase. The consequences of that could be substantial for our society. I think as humans, we are gonna realize what it's gonna be to be a human in an AI world. We are gonna discover what is unique about us, what is special about us, how to use this technology, but there is actually a big responsibility on all of us to get this right for our children and for the next generations to come."

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American Philosophical Society @amphilsociety.bsky.social · Jul 6, 01:33 PM

AI has become a fact of life, but it comes with real dangers. This week’s Meeting Talk Monday comes from Ece Kamar, Managing Director of the Microsoft AI Frontiers Lab, who shares how we can meet the challenges and dangers of AI through new methods and collaboration. https://bit.ly/4azUVZs