Ai Isn t Making You Think But Here Is How It Could Valdemar Danry Tedxboston

We are living in a world where AI is helping us make decisions and reshaping our thinking, but is it making us smarter or just more gullible? Today, I’ll explain why despite many ground-breaking advancements, today’s AI systems aren’t making us into better thinkers but rather blind followers of AI-generated recommendations. I’ll discuss the potential for AI systems that are designed to engage us in dialogue and questioning, and hence make us more aware and engaged in our thinking to improve AI assisted human decision making. By understanding the power of AI as well as the psychology of human decision making, we can use AI to our advantage, boosting our thinking capabilities and maintaining agency in an increasingly AI-driven world.. . AI, Behavior, Research, Social Science Valdemar Danry is a researcher, artist and tech humanist at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. With his background in philosophy, cognitive science, and artificial intelligence, he seeks to understand how artificial intelligence might improve our cognitive capabilities. Valdemar has worked with international collaborators from MIT, Harvard, Georgia Tech, IBM Research, and University of California, and has exhibited his work at Ars Electronica, Electrical Artifacts and at the MIT Museum. His team’s projects have been featured on FastCompany, Time, Disruptive Innovation Festival, National Geographic, The Guardian, and UNEP. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx