Artificial Intelligence (AI) in London

1. It will be helpful for medical research and other areas where large amounts of data need to be sifted
2. There is a risk of reliance on AI generated results, to the detriment of people's ability to think for themselves and with a risk of perpetuating bias and mistakes

I don't think that AI will be any good because I think that it would cause a hell of a lot of job losses up and down the country remember you are only a number in your work force it's like machines if you have a hundred people in your work and some company say's that we can help you save money for less than all of your employers and can do the job twice as fast the director will choose the machines and make you all redundant and employ 2 or 3 people that will look after the machines and look haw much much money they will be making and saving this goes with AI it is already going on look at amazon there will be a hell of a lot of unemployment and the is not much work about and the people that only known one trade all of there life they will find it more difficult to find another job and in fact all people so I disagree with AI in that respect and I disagree with these chat bots when you need to speak to a real person you get a chat bot that doesn't give you the answers that you are looking for in stead you have jump on busses spend half of the day and find the company to find out it's closed and only certain days that it's open few times a week these chat bots can give you the wrong information It's like that they don't want to have human interaction now more or they have done away with customer services and replaced it with a chat bot so I am against IA new machines that get rid of workers and chat bots let people keep their jobs otherwise there will be several hundred people trying to get in to a company that has only got one advertisement for one worker 

The term AI covers a wide range of what are just computer tools. When used by professionals for such things as medical research, debugging code etc. the AI tools are good and being made better. When used by companies and councils to reduce the workforce by having AI slop being a customer contact the tool and implementaion is appaling. I leave businesses who will not allow me quickly to talk to a human.

AI will be used (sooner or later) to replace jobs. It has started in the NHS, eg trying to book GP appointments, ie replacing human receptionists. It is often promoted as a means to make services more efficient, but over time, you decreasingly interact with a human and instead with a 'machine'/device. Eg digital check-ins for medical appointments. I fear that it may be demonic in origin* as it is starting to reduce our interactions with other people and making it harder for people to find secure work and support themselves & their families. It slowly makes us anti-social and normalises having to interact with devices rather than people in certain sectors. (*Not the tech firms as such, but the influence of satan in the world, turning people against each other and turning tech against us, but under the guise of it being all for our good).

I worry most about AI ownership. AI will become the intellectual hub for many of us, which means it will become crucial to decision making on decisions that impact everyone. The problem is that most of the AI services are owned by a very small number of people, many of dubious political sensibilities. The challenge is that AI ownership will concentrate power over the intellectual hub of humanity in a tiny number of right-leaning hands. I fear a host of dangers in that outcome.

The problem with AI is that too many people believe that it gives correct answers to questions, and 'knows' things - it does not. It makes up answers and tells outright lies - it does not know they are lies! Many search engines now bring up an AI response first, and I can see that most of the ones I get are WRONG.

I am worried about how AI will impact employment opportunities for young adults. It has been concerning is that I am not sure if AI companies and/or politicians have a plan for this with the rise of AI use. In talks I've watched and publications I have read, CEOs of AI and social media companies reassure that it will "all be okay" but don't have anything more concrete to say than that. It is reassuring that the Mayor has set up a taskforce to look directly at this. It would be reassuring to hear from the Mayor's taskforce about how politicians are considering it's impact (for better or worse) and what they can do to make most of opportunities and mitigate challenges.