Artificial intelligence

Being human in an age ofAI

Over the past few years artificial intelligence has moved from being the domain of a few experts to potentially one of the most transformative technologies of the past several hundred years.

The speed of AI development – fueled by rapid advanced in compute power, underlying models, and geopolitics – is breathtaking. In just over two years we’ve moved from large language models like ChatGPT which can smoothly write human-like prose to AI tools that can simulate human reasoning, problem solve, and even code based on natural language conversations – what is becoming know as vibe coding or vibeworking.

And society is on the cusp of AI agents that have the ability to problem solve while making decisions without humans in the loop.

The implications to human society and what it means to be human are profound – even when the considerable hype around AI is accounted for. Emerging advanced are calling into question how we lean, how we teach, how we make decisions, how we run organizations, how make new discoveries, how we understand ourselves, and much more. And the underlying theories, technologies and systems are improving almost weekly – to the point where leaders in the field of artificial intelligence sush as Anthropic’s Dario Amodei have suggested that AI-accelerated progress over the next decade will see as much innovation as the previous 100 years.

Leading experts within the ASU Future of Being Human initiative are at the forefront of exploring the cutting edge of AI, from emerging capabilities to their potential impacts on everything from education to research and discovery. The resources below represent just some of the thinking emerging from the initiative around artificial intelligence and how it potentially changes how we understand what it means to be human in an age of AI.