What I Learned From Bernie Sanders and Geoffrey Hinton's Conversation on AI at Georgetown

[Uncle Joe]

This story is a part of the Student Life Blog, a blog written by Georgetown students about their experiences and life at Georgetown.

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For someone like me who is not particularly interested in the tech industry and AI, Hinton’s wealth of knowledge was very accessible. For example, at one point, he compared AI systems to the human brain when discussing the rate at which AI is catching up to human capabilities.

At another point, Hinton explained that the difference between the development of AI and past technological progress is forecasted “massive unemployment.”

“The people that lose their jobs won’t have jobs to go to. If AI gets as smart as people, or smarter, any job they might do can be done by AI,” Hinton said.

Sanders shared this concern, emphasizing how the wealthy are investing in AI technologies without worrying about what will happen to working-class jobs.

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https://www.georgetown.edu/news/what-i-learned-from-bernie-sanders-and-geoffrey-hintons-conversation-on-ai/

[usonian]

1. Not only do the wealthy own the means of production, those means are trivially programmed to strongly bias the results.