Video: Exploring the Human Side of Artificial Intelligence

This year's AI Ethics, Policy, and Governance event brought together more than 900 people from academia, industry, and government to discuss the future of AI (or automated computer systems able to perform tasks that normally require human intelligence). Discussions at the conference highlighted how companies, governments, and people around the world are grappling with AI's ethical, policy, and governance implications. In this panel, Expanding Human Experience, Susan Athey, the Economics of Technology Professor at Stanford Graduate School of Business and faculty associate director at Stanford HAI, spoke about AI's impact on the economy. It's critical, she said, that AI creates shared prosperity and expands -- rather than replaces -- the human experience in life and at work. Humans, after all, understand things in a way that may be difficult to codify in AI.