AI: Coming of age?

Trevor Maynard; Luca Baldassarre; Yves Alexandre De Montjoye; Liz McFall; María Óskarsdóttir

doi:10.1017/S1748499521000245

AI: Coming of age?

Trevor Maynard^*, Luca Baldassarre, Yves Alexandre De Montjoye, Liz McFall, María Óskarsdóttir

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School of Social and Political Science

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AI has had many summers and winters. Proponents have overpromised, and there has been hype and disappointment. In recent years, however, we have watched with awe, surprise, and hope at the successes: Better than human capabilities of image-recognition; winning at Go; useful chatbots that seem to understand your needs; recommendation algorithms harvesting the wisdom of crowds. And with this success comes the spectre of danger. Machine behaviours that embed the worst of human prejudice and biases; techniques trying to exploit human weaknesses to skew elections or prompt self-harming behaviours. Are we seeing a perfect storm of social media, sensor technologies, new algorithms and edge computing? With this backdrop: is AI coming of age?

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1-5
Number of pages	5
Journal	Annals of Actuarial Science
Volume	16
Issue number	1
Early online date	19 Jan 2022
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1017/S1748499521000245
Publication status	Published - Mar 2022

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AI
Artificial Intelligence
ethics
explainability
privacy

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