This new report on how generative AI is transforming society cites the work of TeachAids co-founder and legendary Stanford University professor, the late Cliff Nass. Cliff's research on human-computer interaction has guided generations of researchers in exploring how the evolving capabilities of technology communication systems have created more complex relationships between people and machines. This report, from the Institute for Security and Technology (IST), is a fascinating exploration of how AI is evolving in ways that are transforming culture, and what we should be thinking about for the future. TeachAids co-founder Shuman Ghosemajumder was one of the contributors, along with many other leading experts in AI, culture, and technology.
🚨 NEW from IST: AI has surged to the fore, and #GenAI represents a profound evolution in tech that can affect and manipulate cognition, and outsource cognitive functions. The Generative Identity Initiative (GII)'s inaugural report asks the question; How will this emerging tech affect social cohesion? GII builds on the findings of IST’s Digital Cognition and Democracy Initiative. With the generous support of Omidyar Network, GII engaged 25+ working group members and contributors from across industry, academia, and civil society over the course of seven months. Today’s report, “The Generative Identity Initiative: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Cognition, Society, and the Future,” is the culmination of this effort. Author IST Policy Analyst for Technology and Society Gabrielle Tran and principal investigator Senior VP for Special Projects Eric Davis lay out the ways GenAI might impact social cohesion and present a comprehensive research agenda, noting 27 areas of exploration for addressing these challenges. Research agenda priority areas: 🔹Modernize public policy 🔹Shift internal organizational behavior 🔹Explore informed technical interventions and approaches to alignment 🔹Evolve frameworks and data collection methodologies for understanding AI-human interaction “Wisdom, once viewed as a hallmark of human cognition, is now cast as an aspirational quality of AI—enabling it to navigate complexity, uncertainty, and ethical dilemmas,” the report reads. “By embedding self-reflection, tolerance of uncertainty, and adaptive decision-making into GenAI, we attempt to encode the very traits we risk losing in ourselves through over-reliance and unthoughtful design.” 🧠 Learn more about GII: https://lnkd.in/gKM_ZUEb 🧠 Read “The Generative Identity Initiative: Exploring Generative AI’s Impact on Cognition, Society, and the Future:” https://lnkd.in/gEwAjPEB