Amy Webb is a quantitative futurist and professor at NYU Stern School of Business. She says we’re facing existential uncertainty as AI gets more entrenched in our lives.

Artificial intelligence technologies are ravenous for data — the more data they can gather, the more effective they are. Amy Webb, founder of the Future Today Institute, warns that we haven’t grappled with fundamental questions about our relationship to AI and data, as it works its way deeper into our lives. The answer to “Who owns your face?” should be obvious, says Webb, but the rise of facial recognition software has complicated that question. What rights do individuals have to their own data when they walk through a store that utilizes facial recognition? It’s these sorts of questions that we, as a society, are ignoring, she says.

Can Deep Learning Restore Humanity in Health Care?

It may seem counterintuitive, but Eric Topol, vice president of Scripps Research, says one way to make health care more human is to embrace AI. The AI subfield “deep learning” shows incredible promise to deliver more reliable diagnoses faster. If doctors can depend on technology for test results, they can spend more time working with patients on treatment, says Topol. Hear more from Topol.

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"AI is the tool. We have to not lose track of the actual problems we’re trying to solve." — Catherine Mohr, Deep Dive: Artificial Intelligence on the Rise

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