Three Speculations on the Very Near Future of AI
<p>Let’s think big about AI for a moment, not in terms of business plans and specific applications, but as a civilization-altering technology that’s going to continue blowing our minds in ways that are difficult–but not impossible–to imagine.</p>
<p>Why has artificial intelligence emerged on earth at this particular historical moment, and what are we humans really supposed to do with it? It’s as good a time as any to take an imaginative leap into how artificial intelligence might evolve, on as large a mental canvas as possible. In that spirit, then, here are three speculations about the very near future of artificial intelligence.</p>
<p><strong>1. AI is here to confront and solve climate change</strong></p>
<p>Anthropogenic climate change caused by our unrelenting appetite for fossil fuels threatens the end of civilization as we know it, and mountains of evidence warn us that we’ve triggered the planet’s sixth mass extinction. We seem to react to mounting proof of our climate catastrophe according to the Elizabeth Kubler-Ross model of coping with grief — zig-zagging through stages that include denial, anger, bargaining, and acceptance. The scientific community agrees that the heat waves, pandemics, wildfires, hurricanes, mass dislocations of human populations, food and water shortages, and civil unrest will continue to intensify, marked by milestone events like the collapse of the Thwaites ice sheet and subsequent sea level rise.</p>
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