Erik Brynjolfsson is the director of Stanford’s Digital Economy Lab and has long written about AI’s effect on labor. He gets why AI creators have been so enchanted with mimicking human abilities. It caters to a desire to play god, creating life forms in our own image. “Every culture has a myth about this,” Brynjolfsson says. But mythology may not be the best framework for software development. He thinks economic growth lies in building AI that augments humans: It should do things people can’t.
