Forum warned about AI problems in the future - SHINE News

Artificial intelligence has ushered in a new era with more and more manual tasks being taken over by AI systems and robots. The technology has brought great changes and convenience but we should watch out for problems and negative effects it may trigger as it grows stronger, according to Robin Williams, director of the Institute for the Study of Science, Technology and Innovation at Edinburgh University. Williams thinks people's expectations of this new technology is sometimes a bit overheated, and they should pay attention to possible risks, he said at a pre-session of the Pujiang Innovation Forum. In the 1940s and 1950s, people had huge expectations about what AI could achieve, he said. In the UK in 1973, the British had a great passion for AI with huge sums invested in it.