[...] We can and must act now to prevent that from happening -- and to redirect AI for the good of the many, not just the few.

[...] we should ask who negotiates the terms of these collaborations, and if teachers and factory workers will have any choice but to accept them. In reality automation is largely presented to workers as an ultimatum, a forced collaboration driven by a vision of efficiency defined by scale and statistical optimization.

Researchers in this area have talked about the need to move beyond explainability (seeking explanations for how an algorithm made a decision) to recourse (giving those impacted concrete actions they could take to change the outcome) and to move beyond transparency (insight to how an algorithm works) to contestability (allowing people to challenge it). In a recent op-ed for Nature, AI researcher Pratyusha Kalluri urges that we replace the question, "Is this AI fair?" with the question, "How does this shift power?"