Artificial Intelligence, Business, and Epochal Change

Éditeurs invités

• Glen Whelan, ESG UQÀM
• Gabriel Weber, ESSCA School of Management
• Yann Truong, ESSCA School of Management

Synthèse

Ongoing developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) indicate that machine learning technologies will not simply match, but will potentially significantly surpass, a wide range of human cognitive abilities. Given this trend, there is reason to believe that AI could threaten humanity's hegemonic, agentic, positioning and that it could be a driver of civilizational, epochal change.

Business actors occupy a unique dual-position within this context. First, as leading architects of AI development, high-tech corporations are rebuilding the organizational structures, labour markets, and human-machinic assemblages that will define social existence for decades to come by impacting upon such fundamental concerns as democracy, peace, and human flourishing. Second, the institution of business and markets as a whole will also find itself the subject of transformative forces that it cannot control despite the fact that certain actors therewithin – such as high-tech corporations – have given rise to them.

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Thèmes proposés

• Speed versus safety in the rush to develop (super-intelligent) AI
• Competition and conflict over AI resources
• Defense, offense, and critical AI infrastructure
• (Rogue) AI and principal-agent misalignment
• AI and 'responsibility gaps'
• Existential threats and AI
• AI and the implicit/explicit embodiment of political goals and values
• Corporate elites (e.g., owners/founders) and the control of AI
• Corporate governance within the AI political context
• Ideological conflict in the era of AI
• The algocratic and epistocratic underpinnings of AI developments
• AI and planetary boundaries
• Environmental justice and AI
• The global south and the AI workforce
• Resource creation, extraction and commodification in the era of AI
• AI and exosomatic energy use
• AI and the changing value of human labour and human leisure
• The possibility of human excellence and flourishing in AI impacted societies
• AI and the transformation of markets for consumption and production
• The implications of AI for how we conceive and value human rights, democracy and justice
• AI and peace

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