 Which is the most likely social consequence of AIs?
It is bringing together a diverse community of some of the world's best researchers, philosophers, psychologists, lawyers and computer scientists. That means bringing together the technologists and the experts at developing these algorithms together with social scientists, philosophers, legal scholars and so forth. The current dominant political and economic ideologies, along with growing isolationist sentiment, runs contrary to the bipartisan, collaborative approaches needed to solve global issues like climate change. With AI, that has been the case so far; although not on the same scale. There has been disruption but so far, compared to industrialisation, the impact has been fairly small. AI companies, and in particular the big tech companies, are very concerned that this won't go like climate change, but rather it will go like GMOs: that people will have a gut reaction to this technology as soon as the first great swathe of job losses take hold. And that a broad buy-in by society into some kind of vision of the future in which this technology plays a role is required, if a dangerous – or to them dangerous – counteraction is to be avoided. One of the dominant narratives around not only AI but technology and automation more generally is that we, as humans, are at the mercy of technological progress. For example, routineness and susceptibility to automation are not inevitable features of occupations, job design is hugely important. There can be a bit of a conflict between being impacted by what's happening and having some sort of control over what we want to happen.
 Over-reliance on technology might cause some loss of valuable intuition from educated people
 The AI developers will be able to shape societal structures as they see fit  There will be an overwhelming amount of regulation that will add control to people's lives  Over-reliance on technology might cause some loss of valuable intuition from educated people  There will be no jobs left for humans to complete if AIs continue developing