Unfortunately, in today's work environment - where many people are at
home and rely on network-based services not only for work but also for
entertainment (Netflix and the like) - the infrastructure is under
stress and the download may fail several times.
When you click the yellow DOWNLOAD button, the download starts in the
background without any visible activity on your screen. We suggest you
open the DOWNLOAD page in your browser to check the status. Please do
not close the browser until you are sure the download is complete.
If the download does not start, please try a different server. To change
servers, click on the INFO link just below the yellow DOWNLOAD button
and select a server from the list that appears on the page that opens
when you click on the INFO link.
Please note that you can retry the download as many times as you like,
as long as you do not close the browser window before the download is
complete. You can ignore the donation request, as donations are optional
and help us keep the project alive.
If all goes well, when the download is complete, a window will open
asking you to choose whether to run the installer or save the file to
your hard drive. Please choose the second option and save the file to
your DOWNLOADS folder.
Then open the DOWNLOADS folder and double-click on the file (the name
starts with LibreOffice and ends with .MSI on Windows and .DMG on
MacOS). Follow the on-screen instructions carefully until the end of the
installation process.
If everything goes well, LibreOffice will be installed correctly and
will appear in your menu (for Windows) or in your Applications folder
(for MacOS).
Please do not use torrents as they are not reliable (as of today).
Sorry for the long message. I hope this helps. Best regards.
On 5/4/25 14:56, Daniela Tafani wrote:
AI as Normal Technology
An alternative to the vision of AI as a potential superintelligence
By Arvind Narayanan and Sayash Kapoor
April 15, 2025
We articulate a vision of artificial intelligence (AI) as normal technology. To
view AI as normal is not to understate its impact—even transformative,
general-purpose technologies
such as electricity and the internet are “normal” in our conception. But it is
in contrast to both utopian and dystopian visions of the future of AI which
have a common tendency to
treat it akin to a separate species, a highly autonomous, potentially
superintelligent entity.
The statement “AI is normal technology” is three things:
a description of current AI,
a prediction about the foreseeable future of AI, and
a prescription about how we should treat it.
We view AI as a tool that we can and should remain in control of, and we argue
that this goal does not require drastic policy interventions or technical
breakthroughs. We do not
think that viewing AI as a humanlike intelligence is currently accurate or
useful for understanding its societal impacts, nor is it likely to be in our
vision of the future.
The normal technology frame is about the relationship between technology and
society.
It rejects technological determinism, especially the notion of AI itself as an
agent in determining its future. It is guided by lessons from past
technological revolutions, such as
the slow and uncertain nature of technology adoption and diffusion. It also
emphasizes continuity between the past and the future trajectory of AI in terms
of societal impact and
the role of institutions in shaping this trajectory.
In Part I, we explain why we think that transformative economic and societal
impacts will be slow (on the timescale of decades), making a critical
distinction between AI methods,
AI applications, and AI adoption, arguing that the three happen at different
timescales.
In Part II, we discuss a potential division of labor between humans and AI in a
world with advanced AI (but not “superintelligent” AI, which we view as
incoherent as usually conceptualized). In this world, control is primarily in
the hands of people and organizations; indeed, a greater and greater proportion
of what people do in their jobs is AI control.
In Part III, we examine the implications of AI as normal technology for AI
risks. We analyze accidents, arms races, misuse, and misalignment, and argue
that viewing AI as normal technology leads to fundamentally different
conclusions about mitigations compared to viewing AI as being humanlike.
Of course, we cannot be certain of our predictions, but we aim to describe what
we view as the median outcome. We have not tried to quantify probabilities, but
we have tried to
make predictions that can tell us whether or not AI is behaving like normal
technology.
In Part IV, we discuss the implications for AI policy. We advocate for reducing
uncertainty as a first-rate policy goal and resilience as the overarching
approach to catastrophic risks.
We argue that drastic interventions premised on the difficulty of controlling
superintelligent AI will, in fact, make things much worse if AI turns out to be
normal technology— the
downsides of which will be likely to mirror those of previous technologies that
are deployed in capitalistic societies, such as inequality
<https://www.aisnakeoil.com/p/ai-as-normal-technology>
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