or if they are a student, help them to write the next essay and they are embracing that technology they are finding it extraordinarily useful for them. now, you appear to be saying, you know what, be very careful because this is actually doing structural damage, notjust to your life but to the society and economy in which you live? i think the answer to your question comes back to the point i made earlier. ai has great promise and potential for great damage. the generative al or the large language models could be a new tool for augmenting what we do in knowledge work, in white collar work, journalism, academia, it s not currently going in that direction because, actually, gpt i or chatgpt have very impressive looking results, but deep down, they are not super useful for knowledge workers at the moment. but at the same time, many of these
and, choke democracy? how? ai is a continuation of a trend that started perhaps around two years ago, where we have been using digital technologies, for changing how production is organised, who controls information and how we communicate. both digital technologies in general and ai have great promise, we can talk about some of the specific ways in which ai could be transformational for knowledge work, for example, but in practice, they have actually boosted inequality because they have been used for automation increasing surveillance and also centralising information. i guess all that is true but it depends on how you look at it whether you are a glass half full or glass half empty guy. for example, not so long ago, i was talking to a former president of estonia, and he was telling me with great pride about the degree to which his
around forty years ago, where we have been using digital technologies, for changing how production is organised, who controls information, and how we communicate. both digital technologies in general and ai have great promise. we can talk about some of the specific ways in which ai could be transformational for knowledge work, for example. but in practice, they have actually boosted inequality because they have been used for automation, increasing surveillance, and, also, centralising information. i guess all of that is true but it depends on how you look at i,t whether you are a glass half full or glass half empty guy. for example, not so long ago, i was talking to a former president of estonia and he was telling me with great pride about the degree to which his country now is entirely online, that all citizens are digital citizens who do everything from political interaction
extraordinarily useful for them. now, you appear to be saying, you know what, be very careful because this is actually doing structural damage, notjust to your life but to the society and economy in which you live ? i think the answer to your question comes back to the point i made earlier. ai has great promise and potential for great damage. the generative al, or the large language models, could be a new tool for augmenting what we do in knowledge work, in white collar work, injournalism, academia. it s not currently going in that direction because actually, gpt i or chatgpt have very impressive looking results, but, deep down, they are not super useful for knowledge workers at the moment. but at the same time, many of these things are already being used for centralising information further and replacing workers that used to do simple analytical tasks such as writing tasks or summarising news and so on,