AI and Automation
Let’s assume that they’re positive…
So it’s on. After growing up on Isaac Asimov novels, watching mankind’s first steps on the moon, and the golden age of sci-fi — we are finally in the future. And yet our wise people, from the temples of win, caution us about the perils of submitting to the sweet seduction of having it all just done for us.
They could quite possibly be right.
I also have grave concerns about bias in the AI. Particularly those that might be used to educate our children or mediate our subjective reality. In just a few years, thousands of call centre workers will be replaced by speaking AI, forever patient and unyielding to the point where we hire an AI to do our bidding. Thus we get into an ever escalating holy war of weaponised AI’s complaining to each other about their crappy mobile data service.
In a utopian future of AI and automation we would be blissfully unaware of this friction while we glide through our lives. Let them get a better deal on our utilities, let them sort our itineraries and keep us healthy, wealthy and wise.
Let’s assume that the emergence of ubiquitous AI is inclusive, equitable and of good quality — the people’s AI for Society Operating System 2.0.
I wonder what the world would be like then and how we would get there?
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