AI is here – and everywhere: 3 AI researchers look to the challenges ahead in 2024
The year saw the emergence of generative AI, which moved the technology from the shadows to center stage in the public imagination.
- The year saw the emergence of generative AI, which moved the technology from the shadows to center stage in the public imagination.
- It also saw boardroom drama in an AI startup dominate the news cycle for several days.
- We’ve assembled a panel of AI scholars to look ahead to 2024 and describe the issues AI developers, regulators and everyday people are likely to face, and to give their hopes and recommendations.
- Casey Fiesler, Associate Professor of Information Science, University of Colorado Boulder 2023 was the year of AI hype.
- One of the major AI debates of 2023 was around the role of ChatGPT and similar chatbots in education.
- The more people understand how AI works, the more empowered they are to use it and to critique it.
- I hope that universities that are rushing to hire more technical AI experts put just as much effort into hiring AI ethicists.
Anjana Susarla receives funding from the National Institute of Health and the Omura-Saxena Professorship in Responsible AI Casey Fiesler receives funding from the National Science Foundation, and is currently a funded Visiting Fellow with the Notre Dame-IBM Tech Ethics Lab. Kentaro Toyama's research is funded in part by the National Science Foundation.