AI / human balance, smart coaches, autonomous vehicles traps
Artificial intelligence is gradually taking shape in all parts of our lives, changing how people interact with technology. Owning transportation equipment like cars will be a thing of the past as ride-sharing in combination with driverless cars will probably change public transit.
In each domain, AI has started to deliver important benefits but it also raises important social issues, AI technologies have already begun to displace jobs in several sectors and everybody is concerned.
For example, in legal work, advances in natural language processing has proved useful in scanning and predicting what documents will be relevant to a case making some lawyers worried about their profession, contradicting the assumption that only manufacturing jobs could be computerized.
In reality AI technology is assisting human work rather than replacing it. Routine tasks with low added value for humans will be automated, but would you fully rely on a computer system for your justice case? Of course not, because efforts that involve strategy, creativity, judgment and empathy cannot yet be automated.
Have a good day,
Clotilde
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