Stanford Study: How AI Affects Urban Life

That is a topic researchers at Stanford University have set out to shed some light on, with the release of the first in a series of reports in the One Hundred Year Study on Artificial Intelligence. This ambitious long-term study, known as AI100 was the brainchild of Eric Horvitz, Stanford alumnus and now managing director of the Microsoft Research lab in Redmond. Drawing on the knowledge of interdisciplinary research academics, the aim of AI100 is to give a better understanding of the potential impact of AI over the longer term. Importantly, the study is not meant to offer solutions, but rather to start a discussion centering on the best ways that AI can work for the benefit of society. Artificial Intelligence and Life in 2030 is the product of the first of a century long chain of standing committees working together over the period of the study.