Artifical intelligence serving the future. Results of the backcasting workshop with experts.

Abstract

The aim of the workshop was to find out what AI experts would like to see in the future for AI for 2060, and to explore what steps they would consider important to make such a future reality. The title of the workshop was "Artificial Intelligence serving the future". One of the elements of the title was "Artificial Intelligence". There are many definitions of the term. Whole workshops could be held on how to define this term. In our research, we use the definition of Tegmark (2017) as a starting point to define artificial intelligence as the ability of a machine, computer, or software to achieve complex goals. The approach assumes that machine learning is part of AI. Another element of the title is "serving the future". Here we have deliberately chosen this broad formulation, including considerations for the environment in addition to serving humanity.