Shaping the future of AI | Besma Kraiem | TEDxLisboa
AI Summary
- Background
- Speaker’s origins: grew up in a middle-class family in southern Tunisia.
- Parents prioritized education, despite limited formal schooling.
- Inspired by science fiction and dreams of becoming an astronaut.
- Educational Journey
- Studied in Europe on a scholarship, completing an MBA in the Netherlands.
- Passionate about technology and AI, attended MIT to understand AI’s global impact.
- Impact of AI
- AI is changing the world rapidly, akin to a tsunami compared to gradual changes in past technologies.
- Quick adoption of AI technologies, e.g., ChatGPT reached 100 million users in 8 weeks.
- Emphasizes the transformative potential and serious risks of AI technology.
- Role of Society
- Urges involvement and conversations about AI’s implications, stressing it’s not just for engineers.
- Need for interdisciplinary collaboration: education, ethics, policy-making, and business leadership.
- Future Jobs and Education
- AI may eliminate many jobs by 2030, but can also create new opportunities.
- Importance of cultivating skills that AI cannot replicate, promoting critical thinking.
- Cognitive Outsourcing
- Warns about outsourcing thinking to AI, particularly for future generations.
- Importance of educating children on how to think independently in an AI-driven world.
- Call to Action
- Emphasizes the need for AI literacy: understanding AI, its functions, and its societal impact.
- Encourages everyone to participate, educate themselves, and contribute to ongoing discussions about AI.
- Affirms the responsibility of the current generation to shape the future of AI for humanity’s upliftment, not division.