Philosophy

• While the road to recovery is long and machines with moral intelligence may be decades away, 2018 is expected to start that journey in the right direction by including safety, ethics, and transparency in AI / ML systems.
• The United States will face a number of foreign policy challenges in the years ahead, including the rise of transnational right-wing populism, the international consequences of climate change, and ending America's endless wars while avoiding leaving behind dangerous power vacuums.
• From artificial intelligence and influencer marketing to ethics and diversity: 2019 is set to be another year of disruption for the communications industry.
• In 2019 expect greater push back against major internet companies that violated consumer privacy, data ethics and put our security at risk for scams, identity theft and targeted advertising by monopolistic entities.
• In continuation of last year's focus on personal data and data ethics, the use of data will be the most important topic in 2019.
• There will be an interesting balancing act to maintain for firms and for regulators as the market tries try to find new, innovative ways to use data while respecting privacy and the still-emerging area of data ethics.
• The Institute for Ethics in Artificial Intelligence, which is supported by an initial funding grant from Facebook of $7.5 million over five years, will help advance the growing field of ethical research on new technology and will explore fundamental issues affecting the use and impact of AI.
• Candidate rights, ethics and privacy will be important topics this year.
• Ethics and morality will be a major talking point in terms of AI this year at CES.
• In all logic, the QE reinvestments are expected to grow over the years, since the average maturity of the bonds held by the ECB is around 6-7 years.
• By 2022, 65 percent of organizations will expect CIOs to rethink and modernize governance policies to capitalize on new opportunities and confront privacy and ethics risks posed by AI and machine learning.
• A leading tech topic for 2019 will be digital ethics, a focus on compliance, values and respect for individuals' data in response to public concerns about privacy.
• A recent Gartner Emerging Risks report put cloud computing as the top risk concern for businesses, well ahead of the global economy and business ethics.
• AI presents challenges for entire social systems that govern the relationships between populations, social classes, governments and industry: Privacy, ethics, and safety, will all be key concerns over the coming years.
• Design thinking and digital ethics will continue their peak of inflated expectations for another five to 10 years.
• Europe will have its 'European Google' moment but the US and China are likely to develop many more as a product of their work ethics, mindset and culture.
• Ethics of Artificial Intelligence will be a major concern in 2018.
• By combining a global network of free trade agreements with America's strengths states from Ohio to Oregon could become prime spots for new economic opportunity and investment.
• The emerging economies of Asia-Pacific, especially China and India, are expected to grow tremendously in future, which will make Asia-Pacific the second largest medical aesthetics market in the coming years.
• The world's first national advisory body for artificial intelligence will be established to set standards for the use and ethics of AI and data.
• Breaches in data security and ethics rank as the number one risk to stakeholders' trust for all respondents in the next five years.
• Maintaining an economically coherent and consistent approach in the future will depend on the approaches of the UK and the EU to novel questions in competition law (questions, for example, about algorithmic pricing, online distribution and market power arising from big data).

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Last updated: 16 July 2019