I can't help but feel this article has very little depth. Most people even badly aware of the idea of AI are aware of all these types of risks. "Should a self-driving car swerve out of the way?" is the first thing people say whenever the topic of self-driving anything comes up. "Could the government use it to spy on people and be evil?" Hello, Skynet? Might as well have replaced the entire article with that. A conclusion straight from a style guide provided in a first year polisci class, translated into some kid's medium blog. A mixture of public and private approach with no specifics? Sounds like... everything. Also, I don't buy this popular narrative that somehow social media borked the 2016 election and spread disinformation everywhere and nobody can sort anything out anymore. In reality conspiracy theories and unscientific thinking are nothing new and it's not like governments haven't been elected on the basis of lies or done horrible things in the past. I need a beer.If the private and public sectors can work together, each making its own contribution to an ethically aware system of regulation for AI, we have an opportunity to avoid past mistakes and build a better future.
The problem is a little deeper than that. This unprecedented disruption requires no new scientific breakthroughs in AI, just the application of existing technology to new problems. It will hit many white-collar professionals just as hard as it hits blue-collar factory workers. Despite these immense challenges, I remain hopeful. If handled with care and foresight, this AI crisis could present an opportunity for us to redirect our energy as a society to more human pursuits: to taking care of each other and our communities. To have any chance of forging that future, we must first understand the economic gauntlet that we are about to pass through. https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-human-promise-of-the-ai-revolution-1536935115The real battles that lie ahead will lack the apocalyptic drama of Hollywood blockbusters, but they will disrupt the structure of our economic and political systems all the same. Looming before us in the coming decades is an AI-driven crisis of jobs, inequality and meaning. The new technology will wipe out a huge portion of work as we’ve known it, dramatically widening the wealth gap and posing a challenge to the human dignity of us all.
Artificial intelligence just expands the scope of the problems we've had since the industrial revolution. Worrying about Skynet is silly, worrying about there being far more people than work requiring enough skill that workers can insist on being treated humanely is not. Everyone wants to talk about science fiction scenarios though, because despite there being an intro class in every CS department in the world people still treat AI like magic. Skynet isn't going to happen. Management timing how long accountants spend in the john might.
Exactly. Imagine what the government can do if they hold control over the AI robots? Not only will it not be good for the country and the political system, it will be worst for the people. There will be unrest and riots when the government take advantage of AI and use it to exercise their power.