Intelligence is collective, not artificial — Prof. Michael I. Jordan (UC Berkeley / Inria)
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Professor Michael I. Jordan argues that current AI discourse, focused on AGI and superintelligence, is a harmful distraction for young researchers and lacks economic thinking. He advocates for a 'collectivist economic perspective' on AI, viewing intelligence as a social phenomenon that emerges from interactions between billions of humans and computational systems, emphasizing incentives, markets, and robust uncertainty quantification.