AI Is Proliferating. So Are Questions About How It Is Working and Where It Is Heading

Artificial general intelligence and superintelligence “are going to change humanity and the human condition.” So says Demis Hassabis, Nobel Prize winner and co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind.

While occupying that theoretical, futuristic dimension, AI is also a real, everyday business proposition, raising more immediate if not urgent questions about the nature of employment and eliciting pragmatic responses from major institutions and their leaders.

Goldman Sachs chief executive officer David Solomon told Bloomberg that even as AI is being rapidly and widely deployed, he believes it will more likely improve workflows and productivity than displace a lot of jobs.

Citadel founder and CEO Kenneth Griffin, on a recent Goldman Sachs podcast discussing AI’s “human capital implications,” stressed opportunity and productivity: “There’s no reduction to headcount at Citadel . . . I have incredibly talented people. We have just a huge swath of problems that we’re trying to attack and go after. I will take every single productivity gain I can get because with the talented people we have, we just have more to go after.”

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