Talk Title:
Future Shock: Grappling with the Generative AI Revolution
The title of this presentation is taken from a forthcoming special issue of the Harvard Data Science Review. More than half a century ago, sociologist Alvin Toffler coined the term “Future Shock” to describe the dizzying disorientation brought on by the premature arrival of the future.
While the debate continues whether the advent of generative AI constitutes a future shock, its emergence presents a fascinating array of grand challenges and dilemmas.
Is generative AI intelligent to some degree? How can we ensure confidentiality protection in AI? Is it possible to protect individual privacy, and what does “individual privacy” even mean in the context of generative AI? This talk invites the audience to contemplate these issues, emphasizing the necessity of invoking multiple perspectives, particularly philosophical, legal, and statistical. While the findings may not be shocking, they certainly push us beyond our comfort zones.