The expert nixes the hype about AGI making human labour obsolete. Human intelligence is social, embodied, 8bn people strong. Danger is not that AI will out-think humanity. But that we won’t build the AI applications to make farmers more productive, help students learn, and doctors cure
As New Delhi hosts the AI Impact Summit, conversations about artificial intelligence are intensifying. We are repeatedly told that AI is on the brink of surpassing human intelligence, that so-called “superintelligence” is just around the corner, and will soon transform every dimension of society.