Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about artificial intelligence (AI). AI is a powerful and rapidly advancing technology that has captured everyone's attention. If you've watched enough sci-fi, you know that major technological change is usually either dystopian or utopian—the robots either take over the world or improve it. These polarized views are also common among economists and technologists. On one side, there are the doomers—those convinced that new technologies will destroy jobs, widen inequality, and concentrate power. On the other, there are the techno-optimists—those convinced we're on the ... (full story)