Summary of Smaller Meetings

We realized:

  • Tension between practice and philosophy: three buckets (societal level/governance (rise of machines and democracy and world we live); applications of these machines (regulation; employment in the future); individual (how do we mobilize);
  • Systematized the way we talk about human experience; we fall into the trap of assuming we can automate the human experience
  • Regarding AI replacement of workers: Value is not the same as efficiency
  • It's not about getting the work done, its about the experience of the human; What is the value of the work

We need to ask:

  • "Embracing technology to unleash humanity" vs. "Embracing humanity to unleash technology"
  • AI shapes the world we have vs. AI that shapes the world we want
  • How do we define work? The task or the outcome or the process (i.e. the human elements)
  • Integrity: How do we preserve this in a world changing (i.e. are we building it or is it built for us)
  • Destination-led strategy: We haven't decided what kind of world we want…
  • Human agency: Local approach to understanding the future of technology. But what role does it play?
  • What can we change (here)?