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The future of AI and human flexibility*

Issue title: Artificial Intelligence

Guest editors: R.K. Lindsay

Article type: Other

Authors: Kochen, Manfred;

Affiliations: Mental Health Research institute, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA

Note: [*] Presented in part before Michigan Society of Fellows, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 15, 1984. Partial support under grant NSF IST-8301505 is gratefully acknowledged, as is the assistance of Charles Barr.

Keywords: Value of being human, flexibility, forecasting, prediction, robotics, conflict management

DOI: 10.3233/HSM-1985-5209

Journal: Human Systems Management, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 159-162, 1985

Published: 1 June 1985
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Abstract

A sample of alternate futures of AI is used to illustrate a fruitful approach to meta-AI. At least two important issues generated by progress in AI require analysis. One is the trade-off between building an AI dedicated to a specialized, well-defined domain of problems, at which it excels, and building a flexible AI that can reprogram itself quickly to cope with a variety of unanticipated new tasks. Another central issue concerns the role and value of being human in the face of pressing change of the kind believed to be engendered by AI.

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