Approaches to Understanding AI

The stakes of AI certainly alter how we relate to each other as humans - how we know what we know about reality, how we communicate, how we work and earn money, and about how we think of ourselves as human. But in grappling with these changing relations, three fairly concrete approaches have dominated the conversation: ethics, fairness, and safety. These approaches come from very different academic backgrounds, draw attention to very different aspects of AI, and imagine very different problems and solutions as relevant, leading us to ask: • What are the commonalities and differences between ethics, fairness, and safety as approaches to addressing the challenges of AI? • How do these approaches imagine different problems and solutions for the challenges posed by AI? • How can these approaches work together, or are there some areas where they are mutually incompatible?