Envisioning a Future of Human-AI Cooperation
October 10, 2022
After examining predictions that robots powered by artificial intelligence would take over a host of human jobs, an opinion columnist for the New York Times offered a different prediction: “Decades from now I suspect we’ll have seen that artificial intelligence and people are like peanut butter and jelly: better together.” In Issues, Ben Shneiderman sees a similar future—if scientists and policymakers focus on advancing “human-centered artificial intelligence.” This is a vision, he writes, of “how machines might augment humans, and even encourage our best impulses toward each other, rather than how they might replace humans with something supposedly better.”