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Silicon Valley should acknowledge AI's social consequences
Silicon Valley should acknowledge AI's social consequences
Ho says public resistance to AI is understandable when people primarily encounter stories about destroyed books, labor automation, and high energy consumption, and argues that Silicon Valley needs greater empathy about those consequences.
- Speaker
- Eric Ho
- Topic
- AI Social Impact
- Source timestamp
- 55:08
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