CXOTalk The AI Challenge 2019: Amy Webb - The Big Nine
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Apr 8, 2019 
Amy Webb, a quantitative futurist and founder of the Future Today Institute, dives into the urgent implications of AI in 2019. She discusses nine major companies shaping AI's future and contrasts U.S. and Chinese approaches to its development. Webb highlights biases in AI hiring practices and the need for regulation. She envisions a global coalition, GAIA, to set standards and address challenges. Emphasizing long-term strategic planning, she urges businesses to be proactive about AI's societal impacts and avoid misinformation.
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The Big Nine Control AI's Future
- Nine dominant companies shape the future of AI through talent, patents, silicon, and frameworks.
- These nine firms (three Chinese, six US) set business models, rules, and systems that affect everyday life.
AI Is The Next Era Of Computing
- AI is the next era of computing that uses data to make decisions for predefined outcomes.
- Most deployed systems are artificial narrow intelligence embedded in everyday products.
Two Distinct Global AI Trajectories
- AI development is diverging: China pursues state-aligned systems while US firms push market-driven commercialization.
- Everyday people are caught between differing values on privacy, speech, and governance.
