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3. AI Enters the Physical World of Robotics; AI in China; How Society Will Integrate AI

3. AI Enters the Physical World of Robotics; AI in China; How Society Will Integrate AI

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Explaining the future of AI.


An overview of the global landscape and impact of Artificial Intelligence (AI), highlighting both its concentration of power and its broad societal implications. Specifically, development and investment in large-scale AI models are shown to be highly concentrated in high-income countries, particularly the United States and China, raising concerns about a geopolitical innovation race and widening global inequalities in access and cultural relevance.


The Neo & Nova discuss how AI is transforming work, with predictions of both job augmentation and automation, but emphasizing that human judgment remains crucial, especially in complex, social, or high-stakes contexts like healthcare. Furthermore, the texts explore the ethical and social challenges posed by AI, including the risks of cultural bias, erosion of worker autonomy, the negative effects of social media on mental health, and the importance of establishing robust governance frameworks to ensure AI deployment enhances, rather than diminishes, human agency and freedoms.

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