A different take on AI’s future: why treating AI as ‘normal technology’ may help us understand & shape its impact.
Join us for a live recording of the Future Knowledge podcast exploring “AI as Normal Technology,” a timely and provocative paper by Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor. Kapoor will be in conversation with Kevin Frazier, AI Innovation and Law Fellow at The University of Texas at Austin School of Law.
Moving beyond both utopian hype and dystopian fears, Narayanan and Kapoor argue that AI should be understood as a powerful but ultimately normal general-purpose technology—more like electricity or the internet than a runaway superintelligence. In this conversation, we’ll unpack what this framing means for democracy, work, risk, and policy: why AI’s real-world impacts are likely to unfold gradually, how institutions and human control still matter, and how focusing on resilience and governance may be more effective than chasing speculative superintelligence scenarios.
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