Sanae Okamoto
This week, Scientific American published a news piece on the increasingly common worldwide concerns about rapid advances in generative artificial intelligence, and how this ‘AI anxiety’ can be managed. The article features UNU-MERIT researcher Sanae Okamoto, an expert in psychology, cognitive neuroscience and behavioural science. Okamoto points out that fear of new, unfamiliar technologies has been happening for decades – even centuries, if one considers the strong concerns that people had about the speed of technological advances during the Industrial Revolution – so she urges readers to be mindful of the historical context and reassures us that this is certainly not the first time people have felt such fears.
Read the full article here.
Upcoming radio interview
If you’d like to learn more about this subject, Dr. Okamoto will be doing a live radio interview on a Canadian radio show (Montreal Now) on Friday 6 October at 22:50 CEST / 16:50 EST. You can listen in live here.
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