What will be the impact of AI on jobs?
John Markoff is optimistic. He believes that they will transform, rather than destroy, jobs, and help compensate for the demographic shifts in the world’s population. We will need to retrain a lot, though (so liberal arts degrees are good preparation).
That said, data science and the intersection of biology and information technology are current hot areas for employment.
To the title: there are two streams of development in computer science, AI and human-computer interaction, which don’t have a lot of crossover. They are two different philosophical approaches to the relationship between humans and computers.
Although there’s no real evidence that machines will be self-aware in the near future, they will be autonomous, and we need to design human values into their systems.
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