Understanding the Transformative Impact of AI: An MIT Sloan Career Development Office Conversation with Wei Zhang, Kingland Faculty Fellow in Business Analytics and Associate Professor of Marketing at the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, Iowa Sta

Understanding the Transformative Impact of AI: An MIT Sloan Career Development Office Conversation with Wei Zhang, Kingland Faculty Fellow in Business Analytics and Associate Professor of Marketing at the Debbie and Jerry Ivy College of Business, Iowa Sta

There are two schools of thought: one sees AI as a force multiplier for societal good, and the other envisions a doomsday scenario. Do you foresee any existential or catastrophic AI risk? If so, how so? Let me begin with a confession: it is becoming increasingly challenging to keep up with the rapid flow of experimentation, innovation, and research results emerging around large language models (LLMs), which are the basis for Generative AI. AI’s …