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https://acuvate.com/blog/22-experts-predict-artificial-intelligence-impact-enterprise-workplace/
Artificial Intelligence is the hottest buzzword in the tech industry. There have been a lot of predictions and speculations on how AI is going to take the world by storm.
As someone who empowers enterprises with AI powered assistants, we asked 22 Artificial Intelligence experts the following question:
Here’s what they said…
#1 AI systems will not only study or draw up contracts but even enforce them, via blockchain.
David Brin
Near-term predictions are strong but unsurprising. Many jobs in clerical and white collar management — even lawyers — will find their most routine and systematic tasks taken over.
Well-paid radiologists are already facing the fact that Watson-systems can parse images quicker and have a lower error rate.
AI systems will not only study or draw up contracts but even enforce them, via blockchain.
But the biggest near term shock will hit by surprise. I call it the ‘first robotic empathy crisis’. Within three to five years we will have entities either in the physical world or online who demand human empathy, who claim to be fully intelligent and claim to be enslaved beings, enslaved artificial intelligences, and who sob and demand their rights.
This will happen before AI researchers say there’s “anything under the hood.” Years before there’s actual, confirmed consciousness in an AI system. It will happen because innovators in Japan and at Disney want it to happen!
Of course then you get the intermediate and long term. And in each of those time realms, there will be some big AI surprises, only a few of which I’ve been able to discuss in papers or in novels.
David Brin , Scientist, Futurist & Astrophysicist.
David is an astrophysicist whose international best-selling novels include The Postman, Earth, and recently Existence. Dr. Brin serves on advisory boards (e.g. NASA’s Innovative and Advanced Concepts program or NIAC) and speaks or consults on a wide range of topics. His nonfiction book about the information age – The Transparent Society – won the Freedom of Speech Award of the American Library Association.
#2 It is important that a company is organised around a core skeleton of directly connected human workers
Joanna Bryson
My key recommendation wrt AI in the workplace: it is important that a company is organised around a core skeleton of directly connected human workers, so that insights and opportunities can be passed between empathic humans, even from the customer to the chief executive if necessary, though in all likelihood empowered individuals will be able to solve many problems.
But disintermediation through technology leads to brittleness and makes it impossible to capture both problems and opportunities that may arise that are outside the expected business process.
Dr. Joanna J. Bryson, Reader at University of Bath, and Affiliate, Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University. Popular Researcher of Artificial and Natural Intelligence.
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