Better Future through AI: Avoiding Pitfalls and Guiding AI Towards its Full Potential

After 60 years, Artificial intelligence (AI) has moved from academic research discipline to a technology that affects people's lives every day. We have digital assistants with which you can carry rudimentary conversations, systems that make medical diagnoses more accurately than humans, and cars that drive themselves in regular traffic, for instance. At the same time, despite decades of development, AI is still in its infancy when it comes to commercial applications. There are few standards, little cooperation across companies and countries, and business users and consumers still rely on a small group of experts to be able contribute to AI solutions. There are significant issues that also need to be solved to ensure that as AI adoption grows, it creates positive effects on businesses and society.