Book talk - 'The Means of Prediction: How AI Really Works (and Who Benefits)' with Maximilian Kasy
…to build it: data, computing capacity, expertise and energy. The lecture argues that these decisions, rather than autonomous technological inevitability, influence the distribution of AI’s benefits and harms in an already unequal society. It presents a framework for understanding AI capabilities and considers democratic control of objectives and public oversight as responses to those c
Thu, Mar 5, 2026 · 17:00 UTC