Making AI work for everyone

Angela Fan, Meta AI Research © EPFL 2023 Platforms like ChatGPT are already changing the world. From healthcare to the arts and the way we work, how we can ensure AI and Machine Learning benefit all of society? World renowned experts have gathered at EPFL today to explore this topic. Less than a year after the latest version of ChatGPT was unleashed on the world the explosive growth in the use of generative AI tools and foundational machine learning models shows no let up. A McKinsey Global Survey published this month found that one-third of survey respondents' organizations are already using generative AI regularly in at least one business function. More than one-quarter of respondents from companies using AI say generative AI is already on their boards' agendas and 40 percent said their organizations will increase investment in AI overall because of recent developments in this technology. Despite its rapid advance it is unclear whether this game changing tech will transform our societies for the better or pose serious risks, or both. It can be argued that the transformation in the past couple of decades to today's digital world has made a few entrepreneurs and investors very wealthy and influential without really benefitting the majority.