A collectivist, economic perspective on AI

集体主义视角下的经济AI观

LSE: Public lectures and events

2026-10-21

1 小时 30 分钟
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So much of the recent focus of artificial intelligence (AI) has been on the quest to use massive data to build a single autonomous machine or agent that mimics and augments the human mind. And we only tend to think about AI on that one level – AI as single machine or agent.
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  • Welcome to the LSE events podcast by the London School of Economics and Political Science.

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  • I'm Milan Wojnovich, I'm Professor of Data Science with the Head of Department of the Department of Statistics.

  • It's my pleasure to chair this evening's lecture.

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  • I'll say maybe a few things just to give a background for the lecture.

  • So much of the recent conversation about AI has focused on building a single ever more capable machine.

  • Tonight's speaker asked us to widen the lens to think not only about the individual agent,

  • but about the collective it operates within.

  • So the people, institutions, markets, and the incentives that surround it,

  • that brings together statistics, computer science, and economics, which makes it a very LSE question.

  • Professor Michael Jordan is the Director of Research at India Paris and distinguished...

  • Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, for over four decades.