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Four scenarios on the future of AI in the workplace

AI’s rapid rise in the workplace is opening up new possibilities—some optimistic, others unsettling. We explore how AI could alter job roles, workplace dynamics, and society at large through four different scenarios.

 
 

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Future Trends Marianna Mäki-Teeri Future Trends Marianna Mäki-Teeri

Will We Accept Social Ranking Systems?

China is planning to launch a Social Credit Score (SCS) system that ranks its 1.3 billion residents according their trustworthiness by 2020. It has been called as a futuristic version of Big Brother as it uses large variety of data to monitor and evaluate its citizens’ behaviour. How would you feel if your trustworthiness was publicly measured with a single algorithm-based score?

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Future Trends Tapio Mäkelä Future Trends Tapio Mäkelä

Pirates at The Sea of Data

Despite the fact that Ransomware has been around for some time, software giants like Microsoft keep releasing updates and software that include vulnerabilities. Customers are helpless because they cannot see the software code to see if the products they buy are faulty. Should not companies that let the thieves in, be held responsible?

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