An AI Future Worth Building

Lilian Coral, vice president of New America's Technology and Democracy programs and head of the Open Technology Institute, wrote an op-ed published in The Fulcrum on how to foster an AI future worth building.

In some ways, innovations like ChatGPT represent uncharted territory in the realm of technology. Having worked at the intersection of government and public interest technology for nearly 20 years, I know that AI is not new, and the past year’s intense focus mirrors previous digital tech waves. But I would offer that as we think about how AI evolves, there are three important lessons from the past that we should consider in order to properly harness the benefits of this technology for the public good.