Where intelligence meets intention — examining how AI transforms the systems we live in, and how we choose to respond.
As AI reshapes industries, economies, and identities, it also reshapes us. This section explores not just what is changing, but why it matters — and how we might guide that change with care, courage, and clarity.
Societal Impacts is where n0c’s mission comes fully into focus. Here, we explore the broader effects of AI on culture, labor, creativity, education, and democracy — always with an eye toward preserving autonomy, amplifying human potential, and protecting what makes us most human.
This is the “safety” in AI safety — not just algorithms and compliance, but power, responsibility, and the ethics of transformation.
In this section, you’ll find:
– Longform essays on responsibility, bias, and systemic impact
– Moderated community dialogues and published roundtables
– Analyses of how AI shifts societal norms, labor markets, and civil rights
– Thoughtful critiques of tech narratives, utopias, and dystopias
– Calls to action for community members to shape AI’s trajectory
n0c is more than a platform — it’s a civic effort. A space where diverse perspectives can safely challenge, question, and co-create the systems we want to live in.
🧭 We’re shaping a future where technology amplifies human potential—without compromising our ethics or autonomy.
Imagine a future where we interact regularly with a range of advanced artificial intelligence (AI) assistants — and where millions of assistants interact with each other on our behalf. These experiences and interactions may soon become part of our everyday reality. In this episode, host Hannah Fry and Google DeepMind Senior Staff Research Scientist Iason…...
AI won’t kill us all — but that doesn’t make it trustworthy. Instead of getting distracted by future existential risks, AI ethics researcher Sasha Luccioni thinks we need to focus on the technology’s current negative impacts, like emitting carbon, infringing copyrights and spreading biased information. She offers practical solutions to regulate our AI-filled future —…...
Oct 3, 2024This presentation originally premiered at AI at Wharton’s second annual Business & Generative AI Workshop in San Francisco on September 5-6, 2024. Erik BrynjolfssonJerry Yang and Akiko Yamazaki Professor and Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Human-Centered AI, and Director of the Stanford Digital Economy Lab....
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May 11, 2023Earlier this year Andrew Ng sat down with Professor Fei-Fei Li to discuss the past and present state of Artificial Intelligence, and some of the “audacious questions” still to be answered. If you would like to get started in AI, the new Coursera Machine Learning Specialization developed by Stanford Online and DeepLearning.AI is…...
Jun 13, 2024 #AI #artificialintelligence #digitaltransformationJoin us as we explore the transformative power of data and AI with Nitin Seth, Co-Founder and CEO, Incedo, and Gautam Chikermane, Vice President, ORF. Discover AI’s impact on enterprises and individuals, its link to consciousness, and its role as a potential new religion. We discuss the logic and duality…...
Apr 23, 2023Turnitin Chief Product Officer Annie Chechitelli, Arizona State University , Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, Chris Howard, Gyan Inc CEO Joy Dasgupta, National Louis University , Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs, Eddie Phillips, Stanford GSE Assistant Professor in Education Data Science Dora Demszky, and Edtech Insiders Founder and CEO…...
