Smart machines, bots and systems powered mostly by autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI), will continue those advances.Īs people more deeply embrace these technologies to augment, improve and streamline their lives, they are outsourcing some decision-making and autonomy to digital tools. Respondent answers were solicited though the following prompts:ĭigital tools and human agency: Advances in the internet and online applications have allowed humans to vastly expand their capabilities, increased their capacity to tackle complex problems, allowed them to share and access knowledge nearly instantly, helped them become more efficient and amplified their personal and collective power to understand and shape their surroundings. Results reflect comments fielded from a nonscientific, nonrandom, opt-in sample and are not projectable to any population other than the individuals expressing their points of view in this sample. In all, 540 technology innovators and developers, business and policy leaders, researchers and activists responded in some way to at least one question asked in the canvassing. They were invited to weigh in via a web-based instrument that was open to them between June 29 and Aug. Invitations to participate were emailed to more than 10,000 experts and members of the interested public. Participants were asked to respond to several questions about the likely future of human agency. Some worry that there has been and will continue to be a damaging loss of individual’s “agency,” their right and/or ability to exercise decision-making in their best interests, make choices that fall outside parameters established by corporate or government concerns, to respond to the widest range of choices, and so on. In order for them to do so, there are trade-offs. Smart machines, bots and systems powered mostly by autonomous and artificial intelligence (AI) will continue those advances.
This report covers results from the 15th “ Future of the Internet” canvassing by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center.Īdvances in the internet and online applications have allowed humans to vastly expand their capabilities, increased their capacity to tackle complex problems, allowed them to share and access knowledge nearly instantly, helped them become more efficient and amplified their personal and collective power to understand and shape their surroundings.
0 kommentar(er)
