AI as Normal Technology
Published on: 2025-04-22 12:05:07
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative, general-purpose technologies such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which have a common tendency to treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially superintelligent entity. 1 1. Nick Bostrom. 2012. The superintelligent will: Motivation and instrumental rationality in advanced artificial agents. Minds and Machines 22, 2 (May 2012), 71–85. https://doi:10.1007/s11023-012-9281-3; Nick Bostrom. 2017. Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (reprinted with corrections). Oxford University Press, Oxford, United Kingdom; Sam Altman, Greg Brockman, and Ilya Sutskever. 2023. Governance of Superintelligence (May 2023). https://openai.com/blog/governance-of-superintelligence; Shazeda Ahmed et al. 2023. Building the
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