What Artificial Intelligence Might Bring

February 2, 2026

“Where Is AI Taking Us?” The New York Times asks, providing short takes from eight experts on artificial intelligence’s potential benefits and ill effects, from mundane to momentous. For a deeper dive, Issues offers observations from 11 scholars across the social sciences and humanities, who emphasize that while AI can reshape society, human forces shape AI. The authors explore ways to harness the interaction between AI and society to capitalize on gains while avoiding or mitigating downsides, revealing urgent avenues for research and policy. Getting governance wrong, they argue, could mean narrowing cultural narratives, de-incentivizing creativity, and exploiting workers.

Posted by Tom Burroughs