A presentation from 2018 Utmessa on the societal impact of AI

1. THE SOCIETAL IMPACT OF AI
Thorhildur Jetzek, PhD. Director of Research

2. AI IS THE NEW ELECTRICITY

3. Cheaper processing
power & storage
Exponential
growth
of data
Advances in
AI research
WHY IS NOW THE TIME FOR APPLIED AI?
CORE
TECHNOLOGY
DIGITIZATION
ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE

4. DEEP BLUE
VS.
GARRY CASPAROV
1996-1997

5. AlphaGo Zero
“We’ve removed the
Constraints of Human
Knowledge.”

6. 19 HOURS
AlphaGo Zero has learnt the fundamentals
of more advanced Go strategies such as
life-and-death, influence and territory.

7. 40 DAYS
AlphaGo Zero surpasses all other versions of
AlphaGo and, arguably, becomes the best Go
player in the world. It does this entirely from self-
play, with no human intervention and using no
historical data

8. AI INVESTMENTS AI SENTIMENT

9. AI RELATED JOBS AI PUBLICATIONS

10. However, AI is...
WHAT IS THE STATUS OF AI TODAY?

13. Sample of 238 Danish companies
Manufacturing ICT
Agriculture & fisheries Services
Retail Construction
Other

14. 70
%
27
%
19
%

17. Articificial
Intellingece will be creative
destruction. Many jobs will
be elminated by AI, but it
will generate new roles and
jobs.
Academic, Latin America
TOP CONCERNS &
OPPORTUNITIES
BETTER DECISIONSJOB DISPLACEMENT OPAQUE SYSTEMS IMPROVING LIFE
The development
of IoT and AI will provide
scientific references for
government decision-
making and help them to
respond quickly to public
needs.
Technologist, Asia-Pacific
Algorithms make
decisions faster than human
decision makers.
Furthermore, systems are
increasingly opaque. We
don’t know where they exist
and what decisions they are
making…
Technologist, North America
Projects relating to
artificial Intelligence and the
Internet of Things have gone
a long way in advancing our
present technology and
making life easier for the
average human being.
InternetSocietymember,Africa

18. DOING WELL WHILE DOING
GOOD
“The increasing ability to take proliferating pools of digital
data and turn them into useful intelligence (AI)—carries the
promise of a sea change in business productivity, as well as
potential solutions to a host of difficult social problems.”
U.K. Chancellor Philip Hammond said in Davos that AI could
“double the rate of economic growth in advanced economies
by 2035.”

19. Human Social
Environ-
mental
Economi
c
 Avoid fines (personal data)
 Reuse data and algorithms
 Biased data brings biased
results
 Start with low hanging fruit
and find the most valuable
use cases for you and
society
 Embed ethical
considerations in design
and development
 Empower people to shape
their own future
 Have human values drive
technical development and
use
 Strive to make the New
Economy work for everyone
 Contribute to even
distribution of benefits
 Create jobs through AI
 Use AI and Information to
create more transparency
 Use AI to reduce
greenhouse gas emissions
 Use AI to drive general
sustainability
 Use AI to optimize use of
resources
BE SMART ABOUT AI

20. Countries with more sensible AI
policies will advance more rapidly,
and those with poorly thought out
policies will risk being left behind.
-
Andrew Ng

21. THANK YOU!