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Two very different ways of talking about AI are currently shaping public opinion.
-โThe Digitalist Papersโ (Stanford Digital Economy Lab) bring together more than 30 thought leaders โ including Erik Brynjolfsson, Yoshua Bengio, Eric Schmidt, and Sarah Friar โ to outline scenarios and policy recommendations for transformative AI. Topics range from AI as public infrastructure and labor-market change to education, financial stability, and universal basic capital.
- By contrast, Deutschlandfunkโs highly successful podcasts โThe Peter Thiel Storyโ and โTech Bro Topiaโ focus on the dangers of AI in the hands of a powerful elite, highlighting technopolists, power concentration, and threats to democracy, diversity, equality, the environment, and freedom.
Both formats reach large audiences โ but they serve different purposes:ย
popular science non-fiction vs. entertainment-driven narrative.
The key question:ย
Do we gain more from ๐๐จ๐ซ๐ฐ๐๐ซ๐-๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ค๐ข๐ง๐ ๐ญ๐๐๐ก๐ง๐จ๐ฅ๐จ๐ ๐ข๐๐๐ฅ ๐๐ง๐ ๐ฌ๐จ๐๐ข๐๐ฅ ๐ฏ๐ข๐ฌ๐ข๐จ๐ง๐ฌ, or fromย ๐๐๐๐ซ-๐๐ซ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ง ๐๐ซ๐ข๐ญ๐ข๐ช๐ฎ๐๐ฌ ๐จ๐ ๐ญ๐ก๐๐ข๐ซ ๐ซ๐๐ฉ๐ซ๐๐ฌ๐๐ง๐ญ๐๐ญ๐ข๐ฏ๐๐ฌ?