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EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Articial Intelligence (AI) is a science and a set of computational technologies that
are inspired by—but typically operate quite dierently from—the ways people use
their nervous systems and bodies to sense, learn, reason, and take action. While the
rate of progress in AI has been patchy and unpredictable, there have been signicant
advances since the eld’s inception sixty years ago. Once a mostly academic area of
study, twenty-rst century AI enables a constellation of mainstream technologies that
are having a substantial impact on everyday lives. Computer vision and AI planning,
for example, drive the video games that are now a bigger entertainment industry than
Hollywood. Deep learning, a form of machine learning based on layered representations
of variables referred to as neural networks, has made speech-understanding practical
on our phones and in our kitchens, and its algorithms can be applied widely to an
array of applications that rely on pattern recognition. Natural Language Processing
(NLP) and knowledge representation and reasoning have enabled a machine to beat
the Jeopardy champion and are bringing new power to Web searches.
While impressive, these technologies are highly tailored to particular tasks. Each
application typically requires years of specialized research and careful, unique
construction. In similarly targeted applications, substantial increases in the future
uses of AI technologies, including more self-driving cars, healthcare diagnostics
and targeted treatments, and physical assistance for elder care can be expected. AI
and robotics will also be applied across the globe in industries struggling to attract
younger workers, such as agriculture, food processing, fulllment centers, and
factories. They will facilitate delivery of online purchases through ying drones,
self-driving trucks, or robots that can get up the stairs to the front door.
This report is the rst in a series to be issued at regular intervals as a part of the
One Hundred Year Study on Articial Intelligence (AI100). Starting from a charge
given by the AI100 Standing Committee to consider the likely inuences of AI in a
typical North American city by the year 2030, the 2015 Study Panel, comprising experts
in AI and other relevant areas focused their attention on eight domains they considered
most salient: transportation; service robots; healthcare; education; low-resource
communities; public safety and security; employment and workplace; and entertainment.
In each of these domains, the report both reects on progress in the past fteen years
and anticipates developments in the coming fteen years. Though drawing from a
common source of research, each domain reects dierent AI inuences and challenges,
such as the diculty of creating safe and reliable hardware (transportation and service
robots), the diculty of smoothly interacting with human experts (healthcare and
education), the challenge of gaining public trust (low-resource communities and public
safety and security), the challenge of overcoming fears of marginalizing humans
(employment and workplace), and the social and societal risk of diminishing interpersonal
interactions (entertainment). The report begins with a reection on what constitutes
Articial Intelligence, and concludes with recommendations concerning AI-related
policy. These recommendations include accruing technical expertise about AI in
government and devoting more resources—and removing impediments—to research
on the fairness, security, privacy, and societal impacts of AI systems.
Contrary to the more fantastic predictions for AI in the popular press, the Study
Panel found no cause for concern that AI is an imminent threat to humankind.
No machines with self-sustaining long-term goals and intent have been developed,
nor are they likely to be developed in the near future. Instead, increasingly useful
applications of AI, with potentially profound positive impacts on our society and
economy are likely to emerge between now and 2030, the period this report
considers. At the same time, many of these developments will spur disruptions in
Substantial increases
in the future uses of AI
applications, including
more self-driving cars,
healthcare diagnostics
and targeted treatment,
and physical assistance
for elder care can be
expected.
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