The Turing Trap
Summary of Erik Brynjolfsson, “The Turing Trap: The Promise & Peril of Human-Like Artificial Intelligence,” Stanford Digital Economy Lab, forthcoming in Dædalus, Spring 2022 (arXiv:2201.04200v1). Core argument Brynjolfsson argues that Alan Turing’s “imitation game” set a misleading north star for the AI field. By making human-like intelligence (HLAI) the implicit goal, researchers, executives, and policymakers have been biased toward building AI that substitutes for human labor rather than AI that augments it — a bias that is economically and politically dangerous. ...