What should the average person think about A.I.? As recent polling in the U.S. showed, the vast majority see an existential threat, no doubt because a host of big names keep telling them that A.I. imperils civilization itself. But that’s an extreme position—and there are at least two other extreme positions on the subject that are also jostling for the narrative around the technology.
I got an education on one of them on Monday, at the re:publica festival here in Berlin, where Signal Foundation president Meredith Whittaker gave a keynote on the subject of “A.I., privacy, and the surveillance business model.”
