AI as a Social Technology, by Henry Farell (opens in new tab)

Last week, I attended a talk ‘AI as a social technology’ by Henry Farell (HF) at the Blavatnik School of Government in Oxford. In this post, I list various thoughts or recollections I have. If I had more time, I would create a more coherent flowing narrative, but I’d rather get something out than nothing.Caveats:These notes are based on my memory of the talk, so high chance I am mis-representing some of HF's views.I wrote this before seeing this article 'Large AI models are cultural and socia...