Should we fear artificial intelligence?

Note: Each In-Depth Analysis is assigned a DOI (digital object identifier), which is a safe and long term way of ensuring a hyperlink to the full text of this report. However, when ESO creates this record, on occasion the DOI still has not been activated by the EU Bookshop. If you find the source url hyperlink does not work please use the alternative location hyperlink listed as a related url.For better or worse, artificial intelligence (AI) is predicted to have a huge impact on the future of humanity. As new promises and concerns reach increasingly mainstream audiences, the debate is starting to capture the public imagination. In this publication were presented four opinion pieces, each responding to the question should the public fear AI?

The four authors came from different disciplinary backgrounds and presented diverging perspectives on whether the public should fear the future of AI, and how society should proceed with its development

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European Parliament: European Parliamentary Research Service: In-Depth Analysis, March 2018: Should we fear artificial intelligence? http://www.europarl.europa.eu/RegData/etudes/IDAN/2018/614547/EPRS_IDA(2018)614547_EN.pdf

EP: EPRS: Briefing, January 2018: Understanding artificial intelligence http://www.europeansources.info/record/understanding-artificial-intelligence/

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