Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the AI100 2021 Study – Analytics India Magazine

As part of a series of longitudinal studies on AI, the Stanford HAI has come out with the new AI100 report titled Gathering Strength, Gathering Storms: The One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence (AI100) 2021 Study Panel Report. The report evaluates AIs most significant concerns in the previous five years.

Much has been written on the state of artificial intelligence and its effects on society since the initial AI100 report. Despite this, AI100 is unusual in that it combines two crucial features.

First, it is authored by a study panel of key multidisciplinary scholars in the fieldexperts who have been creating artificial intelligence algorithms or studying their impact on society as their primary professional activity for many years. The authors are experts in the field of artificial intelligence and offer an insiders perspective. Second, it is a long-term study, with periodic reports from study panels anticipated every five years for at least a century.

As AI systems demonstrate greater utility in real-world applications, they have expanded their reach, raising the likelihood of misuse, overuse, and explicit abuse. As the capabilities of AI systems improve and they become more interwoven into society infrastructure, the consequences of losing meaningful control over them grow more alarming.

New research efforts aim to rethink the fields foundations to reduce the reliance of AI systems on explicit and often misspecified aims. A particularly evident concern is that AI might make it easier to develop computers capable of spying on humans and potentially killing them on a large scale.

However, there are numerous more significant and subtler concerns at the moment.

One can access the entire report here.

Nivash has a doctorate in Information Technology. He has worked as a Research Associate at a University and as a Development Engineer in the IT Industry. He is passionate about data science and machine learning.

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Dangers Of Artificial Intelligence: Insights from the AI100 2021 Study - Analytics India Magazine