AI’s success will require maintaining a delicate balance between its vast potential and the challenges it introduces
“By 2040 the ubiquity of AI will have reshaped numerous facets of our daily lives. Advanced personal AI assistants will likely be part of our routines, offering predictions and automations…
Advances in artificial intelligence will add greater velocity to the vector of humanity’s troubles
“AI – which is controlled by the wealthy and powerful – accelerates many threatening processes. And it is too late to stop it. “Think about the one-tenth of one percent…
Agile governance must meet the dynamic challenges of future complex adaptive systems
“Managing and understanding the risks and nonlinearities of future advances will be a critical challenge from now and beyond. “Sophisticated models and agile governance mechanisms will be required to responsibly…
If we design our institutional ‘operating systems’ correctly we can realize a future of unprecedented progress and well-being
“The AI discourse has been too fixated on a possible impending doomsday due to AI that could spiral out of control. The pressing, tangible challenges just at the threshold of…
It may take an existential threat to knock us off the pedestal of narrow critical thinking on AI
“The best consequence of AI – which has existed in the scientific disciplines for many years but has now migrated to the humanities fields and the general consumer space –…
Synthetic agents (‘synthetes’) will be mass produced and create a ‘privacy nightmare’
“There will be many more deepfakes and more AI-generated misinformation in politics, which will make it more difficult to distinguish AI falsehoods from human-authored information. Minimally, laws are needed that…
‘We may lose the exceptionalism of biological life’; AI could be granted human rights
“We shall eventually see our artificial general intelligences as full members of humanity; probably sooner than later. The United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights will apply once AGIs are…
Will AI amplify or reverse trajectories we are now riding?
“If we avoid succumbing to an existential crisis, by 2040 AI will have changed life for those who can afford expensive health care and surgical procedures, homes and vehicles constructed…
Should AIs be required to get a ‘driver’s license’ that certifies them as socially competent?
“Let’s confront some big questions about AI in a Q-A-style interview format: “Question: Where does AI begin and where does it end? The answer is that AI will probably have…
‘It is imperative to start questioning AI and big data assumptions, values and biases’
“The power of AI to solve problems and transform life should not erase the need for vision or human insight. The more AI advances, the more I feel that people…