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AI’s promise, risk, and the urgency of responsible deployment
This excerpt from Center for Humane Technology presents AI as a fundamental shift comparable to other major technological turning points, while warning that deployment is happening faster than responsibility, safety, and governance can keep up. The speakers contrast AI’s genuine benefits with the risks of a powerful race dynamic, using social media as a cautionary example of how seemingly positive narratives can hide deeper harms. The discussion emphasizes the need to understand AI not just as a tool for efficiency and creativity, but as a technology that may reshape society before we are ready.
A call for responsibility
Frames AI as a paradigm-shifting technology that demands a new public understanding of responsibility and risk.
From curation AI to creation AI
Connects the history of social media and engagement-driven AI to today’s generative AI race.
A warning about entanglement
Highlights concerns that rapid deployment may outpace safety, governance, and societal adaptation.
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A new technological threshold
Introduces AI as a paradigm shift and compares the moment to other historic turning points that required new responsibilities.
Lessons from the social media era
Uses social media as a warning example of how engagement-driven AI can create broad unintended harms.
Responsible deployment of generative AI
Questions whether large language models are being released responsibly amid a fast-moving AI race.
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it's it's interesting. It's like the field is so new it doesn't actually even have a unified name for these things. Um but we're going to give them one, which is that these things are generative, they make large language, we're just talking about language, multimodal, images, text, sound, they're all the