AI Transition Week: AI in the Context of Technological Revolutions

What do the technological revolutions of the past teach us about this AI transition?

What can we learn from the Industrial Revolution or the Digital Revolution?

How do they help us predict the outcomes of the AI transition?

And what questions remain unanswered?

Two professors of history and experts in technological revolutions will set up the context of this AI transition through analyzing the Industrial Revolution. We will explore what commonalities this supposed “AI Revolution” might share with the Industrial Revolution, and how history can guide our expectations for what lies ahead.

Speakers: Prya Satia, Stanford University; Trevor Jackson, UC Berkeley