Experts Foresee AI and Connectivity Advances Bringing Benefits and Risks, Call for Safety Practices and Cross-Disciplinary Education
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Rapid changes in AI, IoT, and wireless connectivity bring benefits but also potential dangers like AI systems behaving erratically.
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Experts foresee risks from AI competition between countries, generative AI making truth hard to determine, and invisible cyber attacks.
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Solutions include using software to validate itself, insisting on safety practices for new tech, and governments setting AI safety principles.
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We need new forms of cross-disciplinary education to deal with human-tech challenges.
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Forecasts help us adopt tools to realize the promise of future tech while addressing problems.