Intended obliviousness and unintended consequences
Tonight, I had the chance to attend a talk given by one of my favorite non-fiction writers, Yuval Noah Harari, whose latest book, 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, has quite notably set off a long, enduring existential crisis for me ever since I read it. Organized by Stanford’s Human-Centered AI organization, the talk was focused on the societal impact of AI and was carried out in a conversational style with Stanford’s own leading AI researcher, Fei-Fei Li.