In 2024, I was delighted to be a co-author on an Arxiv paper on"Shaping AI's Impact on Billions of Lives", covering areas we thought AI would have significant impact on the world. We cover AI's potential impact on employment, education, healthcare, (mis)information, media, national security, and science, and propose 18 potential moonshot research directions in these areas to maximize positive impact and minimize downsides. A shortened version appears as the cover article in this month's Communications of the ACM (CACM). CACM version: cacm.acm.org/research/shapi… (~12 pages + video discussion with David Patterson) Arxiv: arxiv.org/abs/2412.02730 (expanded 30 page version) You can find these and more at: shapingai.com It was a delight to work on this with awesome co-authors! Authors: Mariano-Florentino Cuéllar, myself (@JeffDean), @FinaleDoshi, John Hennessy, @andykonwinski, @sanmikoyejo, @tamati_biskit, @2plus2make5, and David Patterson. (PDF link of CACM version is a bit hard to find. It's at dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.114…)
