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AI Impact Statements - Empathy, Imperfection, and Responsibility

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If you follow the media stories about AI, you will see two schools of thought. One school is utopian, proclaiming the amazing power of AI, from predicting quantum electron paths to driving a race car like a champion. The other school is dystopian, scaring us with crisis-ridden stories that range from how AI could bring about the end of privacy to self-driving cars that almost immediately crash. One school of thought is outraged by imperfection, while the other lives in denial. But neither extreme view accurately represents our imperfect world. As Stephen Hawking said, "One of the basic rules of the universe is that nothing is perfect.