AI Needs Historians

How can we solve AI’s problems if we don’t understand where they came from? Jason Steinhauer is a public historian and bestselling author of History, Disrupted: How Social Media & the World Wide Web Have Changed the Past. He is the founder of the History Communication Institute, Global Fellow at The Wilson Center, Senior Fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, an adjunct professor at the Maxwell School for Citizenship & Public Affairs, a contributor to TIME, CNN and DEVEX; a past editorial board member of The Washington Post "Made By History" section; and a Presidential Counselor of the National WWII Museum. He previously worked for seven years at the U.S. Library of Congress.

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I talk with the smartest people I can find working or researching anywhere near the intersection of emerging technologies and their ethical impacts. From AI to social media to quantum computers and blockchain. From hallucinating chatbots to AI judges to who gets control over decentralized applications. If it’s coming down the tech pipeline (or it’s here already), we’ll pick it apart, figure out its implications, and break down what we should do about it.