(De)Generative AI? Exploring the links between AI and the possible
The recent advances in generative AI, especially in the form of Large Language Models (LLMs), have opened up a whole new universe of possibilities. Creating masterful artworks or writing an entire novel in minutes now seem to be at everyone’s fingertips. Yet they have also raised a host of worrying questions. Will Generative AI replace human creativity? Will most of our jobs become obsolete? Are we creating machines that we will not be able to control? While some caution is more than warranted, a lot of our fears are misplaced. In this talk, I propose to go over some of the most common worries and misconceptions about Generative AI and to try to dissipate some of them. Instead, I will outline a series of questions we should start asking ourselves if we want to anticipate some of the risks Generative AI poses and take full advantage of what it has to offer.
Constance de Saint Laurent
Constance de Saint Laurent is a researcher at Dublin City University, Ireland. She works on social thinking and technology as well as on the impact of technology and societal changes on people and organisations. She has previously carried out research on social media, misinformation, collective memory, and representations of alterity, some of which has been published in the open access book Social Thinking and History: A Sociocultural Psychological Perspective on Representations of the Past.