Social Europe
For a decade the debate about artificial intelligence has been organised around a single question: is it a threat or an opportunity? The question feels exhaustive, as if these were two roads and our task were to choose between them. They are not. The benefit and the harm are produced by the same mechanism, in the same moment. Each time an AI system performs a task for us, the result is often better than what we would have managed alone, and in that same act we do not exercise the capacity the task would have demanded. The help is real. So is the erosion. They are two descriptions of one event, which is why the greatest risk of AI is not what it does badly but what it does well.