The most critical AI choices may not be about AI
- Rennie Naidoo
Whether AI narrows existing divides or deepens them may depend less on the technology itself than on the systems surrounding it.
Artificial intelligence (AI) is increasingly framed as a technology whose consequences will depend on the choices we make today.
Governments, companies and individuals face difficult questions about how AI is developed, regulated and used, from its effects on employment and inequality, to concerns about misinformation, cyber security and potentially dangerous uses of increasingly capable systems.
But some of the most consequential choices may not be about AI at all. They are about the systems surrounding it.
AI does not arrive in isolation. It enters schools and hospitals, companies and governments, electricity grids and data centres, labour markets and financial systems. These systems determine not only who gets access to AI, but what can actually be achieved with it.
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