It’s one of today’s most talked-about topics, but what does an AI-driven future really mean for humans like us?
All over the world, artificial intelligence is changing the way we live, work, interact and think – accelerating innovation and helping us process information faster and more effectively than ever.
But while AI means new possibilities in sectors from healthcare to retail, this still emergent technology isn’t without its risks. As advancements race ahead, we have yet to fully comprehend the dangers and dilemmas that arise when machines simulate human intelligence with such accuracy.
Sit down with our expert panel to dive into the extremes of AI’s impact – from actor strikes and cancer screening to worker’s rights, safety testing and ethics. Will this technology be our lifeline or our death sentence?
Panellists: Georgie Barrat, Paterson Joseph, Dr Nisha Sharma, Nigel Toon, and Adrienne Williams.
Top Takeaways
- “Unless the narrative and wording around AI is changed, people will fear it.” – Dr Nisha Sharma
- “Content that is pushed towards you is highly curated. If you wholly rely on sources from social media you’re in deep trouble.” – Nigel Toon
- “I think AI will help us to be more efficient, but I don’t think it will take our jobs.” – Dr Nisha Sharma
- “If we don’t start with an ethical mindset, it follows into the AI.” – Adrienne Williams
- “Legislation made by experts would help to bring out the positive aspects of AI” – Paterson Joseph
- “We should get ahead of technology enough so we can kitemark our creative work” – Paterson Joseph
- “AI will probably be needed to help us solve problems such as zero carbon energy and renewable systems.” – Nigel Toon
- “We’ve stopped being critically analytical with AI. AI should assist our decision making but should not be making decisions on our behalf. ‘Nurses and doctors shouldn’t rely on AI to give a diagnosis, it should be used to support your knowledge and decision making” – Nigel Toon
- ‘To build these models requires more mistakes to be made. Some of which will be big and could affect the entire country, or the climate – so it’s sensible to slow down the development process” – Adrienne Williams
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By the end of this decade, AI will exceed human levels of intelligence. During the 2030s, it will become ‘superintelligent’, vastly outstripping our capabilities and enabling dramatic interventions in our bodies. By 2045, we will be able to connect our brains directly with AI, enhancing our intelligence a millionfold and expanding our consciousness in ways we can barely imagine. This is the Singularity.
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The Coming Wave: Technology, Power, and the Twenty-First Century’s Greatest Dilemma – Mustafa Suleyman
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Soon you will live surrounded by AIs. They will organize your life, operate your business, and run core government services. You will live in a world of DNA printers and quantum computers, engineered pathogens and autonomous weapons, robot assistants and abundant energy.
None of us are prepared.
As co-founder of the pioneering AI company DeepMind, part of Google, Mustafa Suleyman has been at the center of this revolution. The coming decade, he argues, will be defined by this wave of powerful, fast-proliferating new technologies.
In The Coming Wave, Suleyman shows how these forces will create immense prosperity but also threaten the nation-state, the foundation of global order. As our fragile governments sleepwalk into disaster, we face an existential dilemma: unprecedented harms on one side, the threat of overbearing surveillance on the other.
Can we forge a narrow path between catastrophe and dystopia? Is it possible to contain the threat of AI?
This groundbreaking book from the ultimate AI insider establishes “the containment problem”–the task of maintaining control over powerful technologies–as the essential challenge of our age.
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