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Mark Riedl
Georgia Tech; AI ethics and storytelling
Georgia Tech professor of interactive computing whose research spans narrative AI, AI ethics, and creative AI. Frequent public commentator on overhype and underexamined societal harms of generative AI.
current Professor, School of Interactive Computing, Georgia Tech
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Near-term harms firstendorses
Documented present harms outweigh speculative existential narrativesArgues the AI policy conversation should center documented sociotechnical harms, labor, copyright, surveillance, hallucination harms, rather than speculative existential scenarios.
AI hype is a strategy to make people fearful so they will accept governance regimes that benefit incumbents. Real harms are present-tense and unevenly distributed.
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Record last updated 2026-04-25.