Harms of AI
Harms of AI
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人工智能的危害
DOI：
10.3386/w29247
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发表时间：
2021
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影响因子：
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通讯作者：
D. Acemoglu
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作者：
D. Acemoglu
本文讨论了当前人工智能技术发展道路的几个潜在经济、政治和社会成本。我认为，如果人工智能继续沿着目前的轨迹部署，并且仍然不受监管，它可能会产生各种社会，经济和政治危害。其中包括：破坏竞争，消费者隐私和消费者选择;过度自动化工作，加剧不平等，无效地压低工资，未能提高工人生产力;破坏政治话语，民主最基本的生命线。虽然没有确凿的证据表明这些成本是迫在眉睫或巨大的，但在它们完全实现之前理解它们可能是有用的，并且变得更难甚至不可能逆转，正是因为人工智能的前景和广泛的潜力。我还认为，这些成本并不是人工智能技术的本质所固有的，而是与它们目前的使用和开发方式有关--使企业和政府能够对抗工人和公民。因此，限制和扭转这些成本的努力可能需要依靠监管和政策来重新引导人工智能研究。仅仅通过促进竞争来遏制它们的尝试可能是不够的。
This essay discusses several potential economic, political and social costs of the current path of AI technologies. I argue that if AI continues to be deployed along its current trajectory and remains unregulated, it may produce various social, economic and political harms. These include: damaging competition, consumer privacy and consumer choice; excessively automating work, fueling inequality, ineffi ciently pushing down wages, and failing to improve worker productivity; and damaging political discourse, democracy’s most fundamental lifeblood. Although there is no conclusive evidence suggesting that these costs are imminent or substantial, it may be useful to understand them before they are fully realized and become harder or even impossible to reverse, precisely because of AI’s promising and wide-reaching potential. I also suggest that these costs are not inherent to the nature of AI technologies, but are related to how they are being used and developed at the moment – to empower corporations and governments against workers and citizens. As a result, efforts to limit and reverse these costs may need to rely on regulation and policies to redirect AI research. Attempts to contain them just by promoting competition may be insuffi cient.
影响因子：
8.4
作者：
Acemoglu, Daron;Restrepo, Pascual
通讯作者：
Restrepo, Pascual