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A major report from Stanford University co-authored by more than 20 leaders in the fields of AI, computer science, and robotics……predicts that automated trucks, flying vehicles, and personal robots will be commonplace by 2030, but it cautions that remaining technical obstacles will limit them to certain niches. It also warns that the social and ethical implications of advances in AI, such as the potential for unemployment in certain areas and likely erosions of privacy driven by new forms of surveillance, will need to be open to discussion and debate. The study, part of a project intended to last 100 years, is something of a rebuttal to some of the alarmist pronouncements that have been made about AI.

 “No machines with self-sustaining long-term goals and intent have been developed, nor are they likely to be developed in the near future,” the report says. “I really see this as a coming-of-age moment for the field,” says Oren Etzioni, CEO of the Allen Institute for Artificial Intelligence, an independent research institute in Seattle, who is a coauthor of the report. “The extreme positive hype is wrong, and the fear-mongering is not based on any data.” The report identifies the most promising areas for future AI research, and  Etzioni says key among these is research on ways for humans and AI systems to collaborate effectively. Stanford’s One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence will report findings every five years. The first report focuses on areas in which AI will have a significant impact including transportation, health care, education, and employment

Source: W Knight  AI’s Future is not so scary. TECHNOLOGYREVIEW.COM  MIT TECHNOLOGY REVIEW VOL. 119 | NO. 6. 2005

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Every industrial revolution is as much about the displacement and adjustment of the workforce as it is about its replacement, and this newest cycle is no exception. But the propagation of artificial intelligence will also provide new opportunities to put human creativity and innovation to effective use.

 “What we do know is that artificial intelligence will be most effective in the short term for jobs which can be broken down into a series of routines, whether that be manual labor or cognitive tasks,” says Joe Lobo, botmaster at artificial intelligence firm Inbenta. “This means humans will be able to concentrate on the more creative and consequently more enjoyable tasks.”

“Technology has never been a net destroyer of jobs,” says Stuart Frankel, CEO of Narrative Science. “Look at almost every technology job that exists in any enterprise today. None of those jobs existed twenty years ago, and most of them probably didn’t even exist ten years ago.”

For the moment, anyway, rather than being a total takeover of human jobs by robots, the problem is that there are a lot of vacant job posts and not enough skilled people to fill them. With the rise of data-driven business, the demand for tech talent is increasing across the board.

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CREATES NEW JOB OPPORTUNITIES BY BEN DICKSON PC MAGAZINE DIGITAL EDITION  I JUNE 2017 ZDNet

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The prospect of our society including a major role for AIs poses numerous profound and important questions, many of which can be better understood when analyzed through the lens of ethical theory. …….. 

AIs at their most basic level are computer programs that are capable of making decisions. While currently these systems are mostly software agents responsible for approving home loans or deciding to buy or trade stocks, in the future these AIs could be embodied, thus perceiving and acting in the physical world. ………..As AIs become more powerful, the traditional economy may decrease the number of jobs for which human workers are competitive, which could increase inequality, thus decreasing the quality of our economy and our lives. 

Alternatively, our society could recognize that there are plenty of resources, plenty of work we want done, and plenty of people who want to work. We could take an approach that deliberately allocates resources to provide jobs that are not currently justified by increasing shareholder profits but will improve the quality of life in our society.  ……… There are several ethical arguments, and a popular movement, against the use of killer robots in war. Critics of killer robots argue that developing killer robots will inevitably spark a global arms race, and that there will be no way to prevent repressive governments, terrorist groups, or ethnic cleansing movements from acquiring and using this technology once it exists. They argue, further, that there are ways to use AI in warfare that are not about killing. There are also a number of arguments in favour of robots that kill