Societal Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (eBook)

This book goes beyond the current hype of expectations generated by the news on artificial intelligence and machine learning by analyzing realistic expectations for society, its limitations, and possible future scenarios for the use of this technology in our current society. Artificial Intelligence is one of the top topics today and is inflating expectations beyond what the technology can do in the foreseeable future. The future cannot be predicted, but the future of some elements of our society, such as technology, can be estimated. This book merges the modeling of human reasoning with the power of AI technology allowing readers to make more informed decisions about their personal or financial decisions or just being more educated on current technologies. This book presents a model that sketches potential future scenarios based on a discussion of the expectations today, the analysis of the current gap in the literature, and a view of possible futures in terms of technology and use cases. Specifically, this book merges literature on the technology aspects, the sociological impacts, and philosophical aspects.

Carlo Lipizzi, Ph.D., is a Professor at the School of Systems and Enterprises at Stevens Institute of Technology, where he is also the Director for the Center for Complex Systems and Enterprises.  He received his Ph.D. in Systems Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, an Executive Management degree from the International Institute for Management Development (IMD), and an M.S. in Mathematics from the University of Rome.  His research focus is on machine learning, data science, and natural language processing in addition to teaching, researching, and consulting on machine learning and natural language processing.