Summary

  • AI is likely to take over some jobs, but it will be where the technology can offer advantages over humans in specific areas, according to a new report.
  • Speed, scale, scope and sophistication are the four dimensions where AI can prove better than humans.
  • This could be in tasks that humans can do well in one place at a time, but AI can do in millions of places simultaneously, or where an AI can do more things than any one person could, even though a human might do better at any one of those tasks.
  • AI doesn’t have to be better than humans, it just needs to be good and fast, or adequate and scalable.
  • Understanding these key areas can help to know where AI can provide value or where the unique capabilities of humans give us an advantage.

By Bruce Schneier and Nathan Sanders

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