The quest for the impact of AI in society
There are a lot of questions about how AI is going to transform our society, and a lot of articles, scientists and companies trying to answer those questions. Kate Crawford, principal researcher at Microsoft Research, and Meredith Whittaker, founder of Open Research at Google, recently created the AI Now Institute, a research center dedicated to understand the social implications of AI.
The AI Now Institute focuses on four domains:
- Bias and inclusion. We have already witnessed some examples of how biased data can affect AI training, with terrible results.
- Labor and automation. Even if today we don't have real general AI (what we do have is either narrow AI or "augmented intelligence") there is already lot of research about how AI is going to destroy jobs. Hopefully research initiatives like AI Now Institute will help us put some light into the future of jobs and automatization.
- Rights and liberties. We have already seen that AI predictions can be used to "manipulate" an election
- Safety and critical infrastructure. For sure, AI can help improve our life, but it comes not free of terrible mistakes
The second annual report from AI Now Institute is already available, and contains some short recommendations worth reading for anyone putting in place AI initiatives in different domains.
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5yAI is an immensely powerful disruptive force whose roll-out needs parallel measures to contain the impact on human lives ..failure will unleash an uncontrolled reaction that can destroy any and all proposed benefits of AI that ultimately must serve human interest in life