Good morning. How should we rebuild society for an intelligent age? Top execs at Fortune Brainstorm Tech in Aspen weren’t in agreement on the solutions—but the problems were crystal clear.
There’s too much fear, founded or not, about AI for many U.S. workers to try it with an open mind. (Perhaps CEOs should consider pacts to not issue layoffs, à la China, if they seek more AI adoption.) Education—from parents’ responsibility to grade school to university—should eschew teaching to the tools and focus instead on enduring human skills like curiosity, problem solving, and resilience. And we must be wary of exacerbating inequality by failing to let the financial benefits of the business of AI flow to everyone.The big problems with AI, it turns out, are the big problems with society. Perhaps AI can help with that?
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