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Great Debate 2024 Artificial Intelligence (AI) Threat or Opportunity?

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  • Duration: 48 mins
  • Publication date: 19 Mar 2024
  • Part of series The Great Debate

Abstract

The use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in businesses is not new.  However, generative AI such as ChatGPT has propelled the interest in digital transformation in businesses and their customers. 

Early adopters of generative AI have shown promising results like improved customer experience, enhanced customer satisfaction, personalised services and marketing, better productivity and enriched interactions.  

However, businesses must consider the challenges:

AI requires good data (data literacy, integrated systems, data skills and capabilities).

The implementer of AI has additional responsibility to assess ethical issues like bias, privacy, security, fairness, autonomy, societal impact, dignity, safety and job security.

At this year’s Great Debate four speakers will address different aspects of AI implementation and the benefits and challenges they entail.  Regulation will also be discussed.

How will AI affect our life? - Andrew Lea, Head of AI, PXP

Boom or bust / Challenges facing AI - Mona Ashok, Assoc Prof, HBS UoR

Bias and inequality - Dan Remenyi Hon Prof, SMIG

How should/can we control and regulate it? - Alan Mosca, CTO nPlan

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  • Dr Eugene Mohareb

    Dr Eugene Mohareb

    University of Reading

    Responsibilities:Research Group Lead - Energy and Environmental EngineeringModule Convenor, Projects (CE1CPR), Resource-Efficient Built Environments (CE3RES), Life Cycle Assessment (CEM219).After completing my bachelor's and master's degrees in biological engineering from the University of Guelph, I worked for four years as a consultant in the food industry.I completed my doctoral thesis, entitled Quantifying the Transition to Low-Carbon Cities, in Civil/Environmental Engineering at the University of Toronto.My postdoctoral work included assisting with capacity building for rural infrastructure improvement in partnership with UN-HABITAT and the Lao Clean Water Agency (Nam Sa'at), consulting as a policy analyst for the Pembina Institute (an energy think tank) and conducting research as a visiting scholar within the Centre for Sustainable Development at the University of Cambridge.
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