AI, Corporate Responsibility & Democratic Legitimacy: Extended Q&A • Joanna Bryson • GOTO 2025

Joanna Bryson challenges popular AI assumptions, positing current generative AI as powerful tools for cultural knowledge compression, not autonomous intelligences. She emphasizes that AI's capabilities are nearing the human knowledge frontier, requiring focus on human coordination and governance. Bryson critically examines AI's impact on mental health and law, advocating for data-driven regulation and comprehensible systems. She calls for engineering activism, asserting human agency over technological determinism and stressing the importance of transparency and critical thinking in shaping AI's future.