An Enlightened Future with AI

The year of 2020 has proved to be a challenging year defined mostly across the world by a global pandemic and as a result an increasing shift towards digital. The decisions that we make now and in the near future will set the tone for the rest of the decade including how AI may develop and how we will use it. It will require enlightened leadership to maximise the benefit for human society. This article is focused on providing a moment of reflection in terms of where we are and where we are going from a policy and philosophical perspective and to serve as a prelude to a more technical article on the next generation of AI that will follow. Positive use case potential for AI includes the fight against Covid -19.