Resilience in the Age of AI
This is the edited version of my contribution to Building a Human Resilience Infrastructure for the Age of AI: Experts Call for Radical Change Across Institutions, Social Structures - Imagining the Digital Future Center by Lee Rainie and Janna Anderson. ‘If there is ongoing need for leaders, educators, professionals, this will be a sign that the AI revolution has ultimately failed and will signal a long-term limitation in the aspirations of humanity as a species.’ Stephen Downes, expert with the Digital Technologies Research Centre of the National Research Council of Canada, wrote, “It’s important to understand there are multiple ways AIs can play a role in our daily lives: As a stand-alone service, like ChatGPT; as an add-on service, like Copilot in Microsoft Word; and as an integrated service, like adaptive cruise control in a car. Right now, there’s a lot of visibility for the first two, but in the long run integrated AI services will be the majority use case a...
