Artificial Intelligence: Its impact in the near future

Academic and technology experts have joined Stanford University's report on robotics development entitled, "One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence."

Not only will the investigative inquiry focuses on the advancement of artificial forms, but it will also involve issues associated ethical challenges.

"Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030," a research paper consisting of 28,000 words, will tackle impacts in sectors affiliated with employment, healthcare, security, entertainment, education, service robots, transportation and poor communities.

Foreseeing how smart technologies will affect urban life will also be included.

With the release of the AI100 report, researchers and scientists hope that by thinking and discussing ahead what AI might actually bring, preparations to address both the coming benefits and challenges must be instituted.

Every five years, the project will publish an investigation to evaluate the status of AI technologies and their potential impingement across the globe.

Conferences and discourses will commence in order to provide guidance on the proper disposition of software, sensors and machine developments.

According to Barbara Grosz, the Higgins Professor of Natural Sciences at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences who chairs the AI100 Standing Committee, addressing design, ethical and policy issues allow the production of systems which are better designed in the future.

Perhaps one of the biggest troubles in the next fifteen years will be about gaining public trust for AI systems considering the fact that technology will marginalize humans in the workplace.

Peter Stone, a computer scientist at the University of Texas in Austin who chairs the report, said that there is a need to address profound challenges affecting jobs, incomes and other issues while making sure that AI gains are broadly-shared.

For years, luminaries like Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk have declared the programs involving AI can be a threat when it gets out of hand.

The paper has pointed out that if society approaches technology primarily with fear and suspicion, missteps that slow AI's development or drive it underground will result.

Later this year, aside from issuing a report on AI's policy implications, it is also expected that the White House will produce a strategic plant for research and development in the field.