Scientific futurist: ‘We’re going to start seeing an anti-AI pushback”

Scientific Futurist Catherine Ball told the Fortune Innovation Forum to expect "anti-AI pushback."

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00:00Now this might be a little controversial but I don't think anyone should ever say that they are

00:03an AI-led business or an AI-led strategy because everyone knows a good carpenter, knows how to use

00:10nails, hammers, a saw and so AI is just one of the tool sets going forward to your business and

00:15we're going to start seeing an anti-AI pushback. This is actually Jack Dorsey's just released

00:20the idea of bringing back vines on social media which is human-based video content that's six

00:25seconds long and the internet's gone crazy for this. No AI is going to be allowed on that platform

00:30but your data centers are still going to be needed to store all of that video, right? So

00:33having yourself led by the technology is having the cart drive the horse. I think we need to look

00:39at the problem definition, the opportunity definition and then allow the solutions to

00:44present themselves rather than focusing on we're going to use this solution because you've got

00:48blinkers on then and you can't see the other solutions around you.