Why should you care about the development of artificial intelligence?
Think about what the alternative would look like. If you and the wider public do not get informed and engaged, then we leave it to a few entrepreneurs and engineers to decide how this technology will transform our world.
That is the status quo. This small number of people at a few tech firms directly working on artificial intelligence (AI) do understand how extraordinarily powerful this technology is becoming. If the rest of society does not become engaged, then it will be this small elite who decides how this technology will change our lives.
In order To challenge this status quo, Max Roser (Founder and director of Our World in data) wanted to answer three questions in his article:
- Why is it hard to take the prospect of a world transformed by AI seriously?
- How can we imagine such a world?
- What is at stake as this technology becomes more powerful?
We invite you to delve into these interesting questions and their answers at the link below.
Our World in Data is a scientific online publication that focuses on large global problems such as poverty, disease, hunger, climate change, war, existential risks, and inequality.
