From: Carol Hamilton <ai100@aaai.org>
Subject: Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030
Date: August 31, 2016 at 3:19:44 PM EDT
To: <ai100@aaai.org>
Dear Colleagues,
We are pleased to announce the first report of the 100 Year Study on Artificial Intelligence. This is the first in an anticipated series of reports evaluating the progress of AI technologies and challenges to AI in society. Our inaugural theme is how machine intelligence technologies are likely to affect life in a typical North American city in 2030, and how to think about and prepare for these impacts now.
We are writing to you before the public release as a courtesy--and in hopes that this report will catalyze further discussion of AI technologies. We have provided a brief summary of the report below, and the Executive Summary and Overview are available to you now at:
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/2734365/AI100-ES-Overview.pdf
The full report is being publicly released at 11:59 PM Pacific Time on 8/31/2016 at:
http://ai100.stanford.edu/2016-report
We ask that you respect the embargo for public discussion or commentary about the report. The embargo is lifted at 11:59 PM 8/31/2016, when we release the full report. Once it lifts, please share and discuss the report as you see fit. We would be happy to hear your thoughts or feedback. Thank you for your time and attention!
Sincerely,
Barbara Grosz, Harvard (Chair, Standing Committee)
Peter Stone, UT Austin (Chair, 2015-2016 Study Panel)
Russ Altman, Stanford (Faculty Director, AI100 Endowment)
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> From the draft press release:
A panel of thinkers from academia and industry has looked ahead to 2030 to forecast how advances in AI will affect life in a typical North American city in order to spur discussion of how to ensure the valuable, safe, and fair development of these rapidly emerging technologies. The committee’s reflections included the role and importance of specialized AI applications.
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Briefly, the eight sections discuss:
* Transportation: autonomous cars, trucks and, possibly, aerial delivery vehicles may alter how we commute, work and shop and create new patterns of life and leisure in cities.
* Home/Service Robots: from the robotic vacuum cleaners already in some homes, specialized robots will clean and provide security in live/work spaces that will be equipped with sensors and remote controls.
* Healthcare: devices to monitor personal health and robot-assisted surgery are hints of things to come if AI is developed in ways that gain the trust of doctors, nurses and regulators.
* Education: Interactive tutoring systems already help students learn languages, math and other skills, and more is possible if technologies like NLP develop to augment instruction by humans.
* Entertainment: The conjunction of content creation tools, social networks and AI will lead to new ways to gather, organize and deliver media in engaging, personalized and interactive ways.
* Low-resource communities: Investments in uplifting technologies like predictive models to prevent lead poising or improve food distributions could spread AI benefits to the underserved.
* Public Safety and Security: Cameras, drones and software to analyze crime patterns should use AI in ways that reduce human bias and enhance safety without loss of liberty or dignity.
* Employment and Workplace: Start thinking now about how to help people adapt as the economy undergoes rapid changes as many existing jobs are lost and new ones are created.