The dawning of the age of AI: Human transformation or dämmerung?

Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, Vol 29(4), Nov 2023, 459-460; doi:10.1037/pac0000711Reviews the book, The Age of A.I.: And Our Human Future edited by Henry A. Kissinger, Eric Schmidt, and Daniel P. Huttenlocher (2022). This book is an ambitious, at times flamboyant, declaration that “we may have no choice but to foster AI. But we also have a duty to shape it in a way that is compatible with a human future.” Is this another instance of technological determinism, fatalism, and wishful thinking, or do we collectively have the knowledge and willpower to bend information machines to our purposes and thereby limit the risks posed by artificial intelligence to us and to other extant terrestrial beings? If the former seems to be the case, which the authors often assume, is a human/AI “partnership” feasible? Or, if not, how can the now well-acknowledged risks of AI’s seemingly ineluctable “evolution” toward “superintelligence” and possible autonomy from human control be mitigated? (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved)
Source: Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology - Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Source Type: research