The first book in the Fast Future series explores critical emerging issues arising from the rapid pace of development in artificial intelligence (AI). The authors argue for a forward-looking and conscious approach to the development and deployment of AI to ensure that it genuinely serves humanity’s best interest. Through a series of articles, they present a compelling case to get beyond the genuine stupidity of narrow, short-term, and alarmist thinking and look at AI from a long-term holistic perspective. The reality is that AI will impact current sectors and jobs—and hopefully enable new ones. A smart approach requires us to think about and experiment with strategies for adopting and absorbing the impacts of AI—encompassing education systems, reskilling the workforce, unemployment and guaranteed basic incomes, robot taxes, job creation, encouraging new ventures, research and development to enable tomorrow’s industries, and dealing with the mental health impacts. The book explores the potential impacts on sectors ranging from healthcare and automotive to legal and education. The implications for the business itself are also examined from leadership and HR to sales and business ethics.

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Publisher

Fast Future Publishing Ltd

Year

2017

ISBN

9780993295867

Edition

Topic

Éducation

Subtopic

Technologie de l'éducation

BEYOND
GENUINE STUPIDITY

Ensuring AI Serves Humanity

www.fastfuture.com

BEYOND
GENUINE STUPIDITY

Ensuring AI Serves Humanity

Authors

Rohit Talwar
Steve Wells
Alexandra Whittington
April Koury
Maria Romero

Edited by

Rohit Talwar and Maria Romero

www.fastfuture.com

BEYOND GENUINE STUPIDITY

First published in United Kingdom and United States of America by

Fast Future Publishing in 2017
http://www.fastfuture.com

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Paperback ISBN 978-0-9932958-7-4
eBook ISBN 978-0-9932958-6-7

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher.

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Interior design and typesetting by April Koury

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About Fast Future

Fast Future is a professional foresight firm specializing in delivering keynote speeches, executive education, research, and consulting on the emerging future and the impacts of change for global clients. We publish books from leading future thinkers around the world, exploring how developments such as AI, robotics, exponential technologies, and disruptive thinking could impact individuals, societies, businesses, and governments and create the trillion-dollar sectors of the future. Fast Future has a particular focus on ensuring these advances are harnessed to unleash individual potential and enable a very human future.

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The Authors

Rohit Talwar is a global futurist, award-winning keynote speaker, author, and the CEO of Fast Future. His prime focus is on helping clients understand and shape the emerging future by putting people at the center of the agenda. Rohit is the co-author of Designing Your Future, lead editor and a contributing author for The Future of Business, editor of Technology vs. Humanity, and co-editor and contributor for three forthcoming books: Future Transformations – Reimagining Life, Society, and Business, Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business, and 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

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Twitter @fastfuture

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www.linkedin.com/in/talwar

Steve Wells is an experienced strategist, keynote speaker, futures analyst, partnership working practitioner, and the COO of Fast Future. He has a particular interest in helping clients anticipate and respond to the disruptive bursts of technological possibility that are shaping the emerging future. Steve is a co-editor of The Future of Business, Technology vs. Humanity, and forthcoming books on Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business and 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

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Twitter @informingchoice

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www.linkedin.com/in/wellssteve/

Alexandra Whittington is a futurist, writer, foresight director of Fast Future, and faculty member on the Futures program at the University of Houston. She has a particular expertise in future visioning and scenario planning. Alexandra is a contributor to The Future of Business and a co-editor for forthcoming books on Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business and 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

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Twitter @alexandra4casts

www.linkedin.com/in/alexandra-whittington-86794876

April Koury is a foresight researcher, writer, and the publishing director of Fast Future. She has worked on a range of foresight initiatives including society and media in 2020, emerging economies, and the future of travel, tourism, and transportation. April is a co-editor of The Future of Business, Technology vs. Humanity, and two forthcoming books on Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business and 50:50 – Scenarios for the Next 50 Years.

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www.linkedin.com/in/april-koury-20b04396/

Maria Romero is a futurist and foresight researcher at Fast Future. She has worked on a range of foresight initiatives including a project for NASA’s Langley Research Center and the publication of “The Future of Student Life: Living” in On The Horizon. Maria is a contributor to Unleashing Human Potential – The Future of AI in Business and co-editor of the forthcoming book Future Transformations – Reimagining Life, Society, and Business.

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www.linkedin.com/in/mgromerom/

Contents

INTRODUCTION

IMPACTS OF AI ON SOCIETY

Artificial Intelligence – Five Societal Priorities

Technological Disruption – A Survival Guide

Living with the Enemy – Staying Human in the Era of Superintelligent Machines

Morning, Noon, and Night – 15 Ways AI Could Transform Daily Life

How Artificial Intelligence Might Help Us Decode Our World

The Human, Smart, and Sustainable Future of Cities

IMPACTS OF AI ON MAJOR INDUSTRIES

AI and Healthcare – The Now, The Next, and The Possible

The Creative and Destructive Impacts of AI-Powered FinTech on Financial Services

Riding Shotgun with Autonomous Vehicles

Robo-Retail vs. Humanity at a Price? Two Possible Futures for Retail

Unleashing the True Potential of AI – Building the Exponential Law Firm

A Day in the Life of a Legal Project Manager: June 1st, 2020

Most Exponential Law Firms 2025

Artificial Intelligence and the Growth Opportunity for Accounting Firms

Designing for a Post-Job Future: The Impact of AI on Architecture

AI and the Many Possible Futures of the IT Professional

Artificial Intelligence – The Next Frontier in IT Security?

IMPACTS OF AI ON BUSINESS

Artificial Intelligence in the Workplace – The Leadership Challenge

AI – Addressing the Human and Workplace Implications

Hope is Not a Strategy – Retention, Engagement, and Productivity in the Era of Artificial Intelligence

Small Business and AI: Now, Next, and Future

IMPACTS OF AI ON JOBS AND THE ECONOMY

Dancing with Disruption – 20 Jobs that Could Be Transformed by AI

Hand Picked by Robots – The Beginning of the End for Humans in the Food Sector?

Rethinking Work and Jobs in the Exponential Era

Hire the Robots, Free the People

Taxing the Robots – Far Sighted or Fanciful?

FAST FUTURE

Also from Fast Future

Introduction

By Rohit Talwar and Maria Romero

Beyond Genuine Stupidity – Ensuring AI Serves Humanity is aimed at the business leaders of today and tomorrow, those whose lives might be impacted by artificial intelligence (AI) in the years ahead, and interested onlookers. Our aim is to explore critical issues arising from the rapid pace of development of AI and to highlight the need for an enlightened, forward-looking, and holistic approach to ensuring that this most disruptive of technologies is harnessed in service of humanity. We hope you enjoy reading it and welcome your feedback.

This is the first book in the Fast Future series—which is designed to provide clear and rapid insights into the trends, forces, developments, and ideas shaping the future and the possible scenarios that could arise.

Just Another Disruptive Technology?

Almost every new technology arrives with a fanbase claiming it will revolutionize life on Earth. For some, AI is just one more in a long list of over-hyped technologies that won’t live up to its promise. At the other end of the spectrum are those who believe this could literally be the game changing invention that reshapes our world. They argue that humanity has a directional choice: Do we want the transformation to enable an unleashing of human potential, or lead us towards the effective end of life on the planet? We believe AI is like no technology that has gone before, but we are far too early in its evolution to know how far and how rapidly this Fourth Industrial Revolution powered by smart machines might spread.

What is clear is that, in real terms, although we are only in the very early stages of the AI revolution, we can already see that it has the potential to disrupt every aspect of our private and public lives. Indeed, AI is already having a dramatic impact across everything from medical diagnosis and construction to government decision making, financial services, and even dating sites. As the pace of development accelerates, and AI’s potential becomes a little clearer, so the warnings grow e...

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