If We Don’t Change Direction Soon, We’ll End Up Where We’re Going
HBH A301
5000 Forbes Avenue, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213, United States
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This talk considers the growing consensus regarding the impact of advances in information and communication technology as well as machine learning on: rising inequality in the distribution of wealth and income; declining social mobility; and the rise of populism and the alt-right throughout the West. Capitalism and democratic politics have reinvented themselves several times in the past 175 years. What are the odds of them doing so again? How might that work? What will happen to developing countries as all this plays out? Is China really that far ahead of the U.S. in AI? Where might Carnegie Mellon fit into all of this?
Mark Kamlet is University Professor of Economics and Provost Emeritus at Carnegie Mellon University. He served as Carnegie Mellon’s provost (chief academic officer) and executive vice president from 2000 to 2014. Prior to that he was Dean of the Heinz College for seven years.