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“The Discourse Is Unhinged”
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“The Discourse Is Unhinged”

How the Media Gets AI Alarmingly Wrong

Oscar Schwartz
The Guardian, 2018
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Artificial intelligence (AI) will change the way people live, drive their cars and diagnose disease. But rather than reporting on the technology’s incremental breakthroughs, the media tend to paint end-of-the-world scenarios revolving around AI. In The Guardian, writer and researcher Oscar Schwartz warns that overblown public expectations about AI’s potential and speculative accounts of rogue technology may hurt the field of AI research. getAbstract recommends this article to anyone who is overly excited or excessively pessimistic about AI. 

Take-Aways

  • The media turned a story about an artificial intelligence (AI) experiment into a Frankenstein-like tale of bots communicating in their own language – leaving the researchers who built them behind.
  • The media hype around AI is sowing fear and false expectations among the public. 
  • AI research in the 1960s was relegated to the back burner after the public’s inflated expectations about the discipline didn’t bear out. 

About the Author

Oscar Schwartz, PhD, is a writer, researching digital technology’s influence on culture and human interaction.

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