Artificial intelligence (AI) is reshaping the world we live in, creating waves of innovation and efficiency that are sweeping through many sectors. In today's digital age, AI is behind everything from healthcare diagnostics to virtual business-sector customer service. And while these examples of AI in action creep into our digital lives, the technology is also working quietly (and sometimes not so quietly) behind the scenes to lay the foundation for new applications that promise to transform entire industries.
Even with the promising advancements in artificial intelligence, it deals with a series of highly intricate ethical and social issues we must consider very carefully. These are the major, public policy-type questions that are pertinent to AI. They strike at the sunny promise of AI with technosolutionist vibes, and they do so with very good reason. They're about:
- Job displacement
- Privacy
- Fairness
AI's future is filled with the opportunity to do something that hasn't been done before: to work with what we see ahead and do it better, to unfurl unprecedented advancements. Its promise is something our futurists want more of. On the one hand, that promise is something to incubate, to foster. It's why some of our researchers are based in venues like Langson Institute for Brain Development and why others are shuttled back and forth from labs in places ranging from Seattle to Silicon Valley. Dissection of what's happening in those spaces is a key to understanding AI. Its understanding is crucial to understanding what society is building with AI.