An agenda to maximise AI’s benefits and minimise harms, by David Patterson
Live MintPeople are reacting with both fascination and fear to the rapid deployment of artificial intelligence. We then assembled nine of the world’s leading computer scientists and rising AI stars, from academia, startups and big tech, to explore the pragmatic near-term impact of AI. We also interviewed two dozen other experts about AI’s impact on their specialties, including John Jumper, a winner of this year’s Nobel prize in chemistry, on science; President Barack Obama on governance; his former UN ambassador and national security adviser Susan Rice on security; and Eric Schmidt, a philanthropist and Google’s former chief executive, on several topics. Eric Schmidt emphasises that while rich countries worry about AI displacing highly trained professionals, countries with lean economies face shortages of skilled experts. For example, an AI system that improved the skills and productivity of nurses and physician assistants would also give more patients access to high-quality health care in regions that are short of doctors.
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