At Kinaxis, who we are is grounded in our common belief that people matter. Each one of us plays an important part in accomplishing our work, building our culture and making a global impact. Every day, we're empowered to work together to help our customers make fast, confident planning decisions. This is how we create a better planet – for each other, for our customers and for generations to come. Our cloud-based platform RapidResponse ensures that the products we need – everything from medicine and cars, to day-to-day items like toothpaste – make it to market and into our hands when we need them with minimal ecological footprint.

This article was contributed by Matt Shirley, technology consultant and lead content writer for Splinter Economics. In 2022 and beyond, artificial intelligence (AI) has rapidly progressed to become far more "intelligent" than we would have previously thought possible. There is considerable concern that AI is now "too intelligent," and, in the wrong hands, AI certainly does threaten to create a humanitarian crisis. "It is most unfortunate that researchers are crazy to build AI-based autonomous weapons systems, without understanding that it can destroy humanity in totality," wrote author Amit Ray. Nevertheless, AI offers humanity far greater opportunities for positive development.