Artificial intelligence is already transforming our lives, but should we be concerned regarding its consequences

Interview with Dr Steve McCabe

Transcript

00:00Well, we live in a technological world, anything that can sort of give us more ability to do

00:05things, it's got to be sort of good because it produces some benefits in terms of the

00:11fact that we can get things done quicker or indeed we can rely on the system to make decisions

00:16for us.

00:17AI adoption is transforming healthcare with predictive diagnostics, finance with fraud

00:22detection and manufacturing with automation.

00:26Despite these benefits, challenges such as ethical concerns, data privacy issues and

00:31the need for substantial investments persist.

00:35Artificial intelligence will undoubtedly enhance our world, the problem I see is that in every

00:41other technological revolution it creates opportunities and indeed it's not to say

00:45there may be so from the next revolution and also computing power will undoubtedly be increased

00:52as a consequence.

00:53But the problem is, in this one of course, it may sort of take jobs away and indeed many

00:57of the low-skilled jobs, they have sort of ceased to exist because of course we can get

01:00machines to do that.

01:01What we're looking at in terms of artificial intelligence is the ability of a system to

01:06sort of take over professional jobs, so jobs which hitherto have sort of been unaffected

01:10by revolutionary changes of computerisation and robots and the like, they may sort of

01:16be the next in line.

01:18There are concerns regarding misuse of AI, such as in education, where students might

01:24use AI for submitted work, compromising academic integrity and genuine learning.

01:32Detecting AI-generated content is challenging, prompting educational institutions to develop

01:38new policies and detection tools.

01:40Well it's a problem, but of course if this has been sort of written off from scratch

01:45by a machine, it's extremely difficult, if not impossible, to pick up.

01:49So as I say, you get a sort of a perfect piece of work and there is no sort of way, if you

01:53like, of disproving that that's a really brilliant student or somebody who's just sort of paid

01:57to sort of use AI.