Rainie, the director of Elon's Imagining the Digital Future Center, was a guest on the long-running PBS news and public affairs program.
A recent exploration into how artificial intelligence could impact the future of the human workforce by the long-running PBS program White House Chronicle featured insights from Lee Rainie, director of Elon’s Imagining the Digital Future Center.
Rainie shared with host Llewellyn King and co-host Adam Clayton Powell III his perspectives on the evolution of artificial intelligence and how the revolution in this expanding technology could have broad impacts. To start the program, Rainie explained that the revolution in artificial intelligence follows similar revolutions in broadband, mobile connectivity and social media.
“The fourth (revolution) and I would argue the biggest, is artificial intelligence, and it has been a long time coming,” Rainie said. “It’s about 72 years old if you look back at the first AI programs and it’s rocketed into the public consciousness and into big-time usage in the past year and a half after ChatGPT was put on the market in late November 2022.”
Watch the full episode to learn more.
Rainie joined Elon in 2023 as the director of the Imagining the Digital Future Center after more than two decades with the Pew Research Center and as a key collaborator with the center’s predecessor, the Imagining the Internet Center. Among the center’s most recent work was the release of a report in May containing the results of a national opinion survey and canvassing of technology experts about AI and politics.