Redesigning AI

Here Come the Robot Nurses

The pandemic increased demand and possibilities for automating care, but doing so may deliver racist stereotypes and unemployment for women of color.

  • Anna Romina Guevarra

Workplace Training in the Age of AI

To support the work of the future, we must promote workers’ skills as crucial to technological progress.

  • Nichola Lowe

Stop Building Bad AI

Justice demands that we think not just about profit or performance, but above all about purpose.

  • Annette Zimmermann

AI Can Still Be Redirected

Final response: It is not too late to put technology to work to create jobs and opportunities and to support individual freedom and democracy.

  • Daron Acemoglu

Why AI Needs Academia

The frontier of AI science should be in universities.

  • Rob Reich

Beyond the Automation-Only Approach

AI doesn’t have to be a total substitution. It can be a supplement.

  • Lama Nachman

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Decolonizing AI

Algorithmic oppression is rooted in the colonial project.

  • William S. Isaac
  • Shakir Mohamed
  • Marie-Therese Png

Technology Is Unlikely to Create Shared Prosperity

We must rethink the connection between employment and economic growth.

  • Aaron Benanav

How the Pandemic Might Shape the Fight Against Automation

We must also address the interrelated challenges created by the pandemic.

  • Molly Kinder

The Punitive Potential of AI

The problems go beyond the abstractions of democracy and liberty. New workplace technologies cater to punitive practices.

  • Andrea Dehlendorf
  • Ryan Gerety

A World with Less Work

The threat of automation requires stronger labor policy proposals.

  • Daniel Susskind

Between Dystopia and Utopia

AI/human “collaboration” is not the answer to the threat of automation.

  • Kate Crawford

Augmentation, Not Automation

When it comes to AI’s effect on the workforce, the real challenge is wages, not jobs.

  • Erik Brynjolfsson

The Means of Prediction

Discussions about “fairness” don’t go far enough. We need to think more deeply about who controls data and algorithms.

  • Rediet Abebe
  • Maximilian Kasy

AI’s Future Doesn’t Have to Be Dystopian

AI can be used for good—but only if we modify our approach.

  • Daron Acemoglu
with responses from
  • Rediet Abebe & Maximilian Kasy
  • Erik Brynjolfsson
  • Kate Crawford
  • Daniel Susskind
  • Andrea Dehlendorf & Ryan Gerety
  • Molly Kinder
  • Aaron Benanav
  • William S. Isaac & Shakir Mohamed & Marie-Therese Png
  • Lama Nachman
  • Rob Reich

From the Editors: Redesigning AI

Our new book offers a deeper understanding of the current challenges of AI and a rich, constructive, morally urgent vision for redirecting its course.

  • Deborah Chasman
  • Joshua Cohen
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