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ROBOTICS AND AI
a frightening prospect. But the cure to Today – unlike any other period in been left to the hazards of individual
these fears is to focus on what sort of history – the major impediments (to experience. AEI will use technology to
intelligence AI should really emulate economic progress, better politics reduce the randomness. Just as, now,
and enhance. Increasing emotional and more flourishing lives) are all everyone can spell ‘scythe’ or work
intelligence isn’t frightening; it is psychological. It’s mainly the flaws out the square root of 11935, thanks
the key to all that we most value: in our emotional capacities that ruin to AI, we should all soon be able to
empathy, creativity, kindness existence. But we’ve not yet really connect with machines that help us
and generosity. We face a race to concentrated on addressing how to correct the range of our emotional
ensure that we can have adequate make ourselves more mature. It’s failings. The age of AEI is urgently
levels of maturity and wisdom due. n
to counterbalance the enormous
increase in our technical prowess.
Worries about machines ‘turning evil’
might be more accurately expressed
as a fear that they will lack emotional
intelligence. This doesn’t have to be
the case.
JACK SHAW
Why Blockchain Is Crucial to Digital Transformation
Jack Shaw is a leading technologies promise to meet those Now, I’m a big believer in AI. I've
technology futurist and a needs with a degree of trust and been writing and speaking about it for
Blockchain expert integrity never before possible.” over 15 years. I spent several years
as Vice President for Commercial
Recently, I was asked to But for many, the question remaining Systems for a leading developer of
provide a quote on Blockchain is why Blockchain is so especially
technology for the global powerful in addressing these needs.
publication, Social Value and After all aren't other emerging
Intangibles Review, published by the technologies such as the Internet of
Centre for Citizenship Enterprise and Things (IoT), 3D Printing, Augmented
Governance. The quote I offered was: Reality, and especially Artificial
Intelligence (AI) equally important?
“Wherever people, processes, In a recent article I read quoting
businesses, governments, or five other Futurists, all five included
the social good requires proof of AI as among the important trends
identity, ownership, transactions, of the future. Not a single one even
or commitments; Blockchain mentioned Blockchain.
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