Maximilian Kasy, Economist: “the Ai Is Not a God that We Have Created to Which We Must Now Submit”

El Pais

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For Maximilian Kasy (Vienna, 43), the truly important, frightening question about artificial intelligence is: who controls it? Professor of Economics at Oxford University, this mathematician and expert in machine learning techniques has just published The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works and Who Benefits, published by the University of Chicago, a book in which he argues that the fundamental conflicts of AI do not arise from the struggle …