Executive Summary
“Men who have created new fruits in the world cannot create a system whereby their fruits may be eaten. And the failure hangs over the State like a great sorrow.”
– John Steinbeck, Grapes of Wrath
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The mission of the AI Integration Task Force is to provide immediate guidance to any and all components of society to integrate AI in a beneficial way that minimizes negative consequences. This guidance is intended to be interdisciplinary, practical, short-term, and non-partisan – geared toward users, not developers, of AI.
The development of sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) is easy compared to figuring out how to integrate AI into society. This is not an issue of AI capability, nor of building safety features within various AI systems. The challenge is with constructing the plethora of applications – defense, education, labor, the arts, etc. There is a need to guide fields being disrupted by AI in how to revamp workflow, monetization, creativity, etc., so as to maximize the benefits of AI while minimizing the harms. The AI tools of today are not the AI tools of yesterday, and nothing compared to the AI tools of tomorrow – there have been, and will continue to be, quantum leaps in capabilities for many reasons. Throughout this proposal, we turn to AI to tell us about AI, and its descriptions are compelling:
The impact of this inflection point is still unfolding, and the future of AI holds both immense promise and potential challenges. As AI technology continues to advance, it is crucial to address ethical considerations and ensure that AI is developed and used responsibly for the benefit of society.
The rapid rate of changes upon us due to AI would challenge any normal means by which we typically evolve as societies through legislation, courts, business strategies, etc. Given the scope and depth of the realignment being caused by AI, most, if not all, sectors of society would benefit from real-world, pragmatic, immediate, and continual guidance. Guidance might include positive and negative consequences of possible strategic decisions, new metaphors and paradigms to frame analyses, regulatory suggestions, economic and labor models, etc., all with an eye toward, say, the next 1-2 years. This proposal describes one approach to the rapid development of needed guidance, through the recently founded non-profit, the AI Integration Task Force.