Promoters of Artificial Intelligence claim that AI is going to usher in a new era of prosperity for all. Economist Mary Hart-Landsberg is skeptical. He argues that generative AI, like chatbots, have not only largely exhausted their potential, they pose numerous threats to human well-being. Patricia Kullberg speaks with Hart-Landsberg about the problems of generative AI, which is the type of AI used to create new content, like text images and audio, based on existing data. Hart-Landsberg wrote about generative AI in a blog published in February of this year entitled Exposing the Big Con: the False Promise of Artificial Intelligence. Hart-Landsberg is Chair of the Oregon chapter of the National Writers Union; Chair of Portland Rising, a committee of Portland Jobs with Justice; and Professor emeritus of economics at Lewis and Clark College.
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