Seeking clarity amidst an uncertain future
Artificial Intelligence is the engine of the fourth industrial revolution and is set to shake up society as we know it – from economics and the law through to work and income – no sector is immune. GC spoke to thought leaders from the world of politics, law, business and academia for their views on the artificial revolution and whether we’re heading for utopia or dystopia.
There’s change afoot out there in the world, a world in which any remaining Luddites can no longer sit with their hands over their ears in a state of denial. We are in a period of digital technology which is so disruptive that the only thing that comes close to it in human history has been the first industrial revolution. That movement overturned the trajectory humans had been on through various contemporaneous developments in mechanical engineering, chemistry, metallurgy, and other disciplines, and its advancements altered the landscape of human history. Our digital revolution will effectively lay waste to that landscape created by the first industrial revolution and something entirely new will have to take its place.
