"If 2018 brought artificial intelligence systems into our
homes, 2019 will be the year we think about their place in our lives.
Next year, AIs will take on an even greater role: predicting how our
climate will change, advising us on our health and controlling our
spending. Conversational assistants will do more than ever at our
command, but only if businesses and nation states become more
transparent about their use. Until now, AIs have remained black boxes.
In 2019, they will start to open up.
The coming year
is also going to be the year that changes the way we talk about AI. From
wide-eyed techno-lust or trembling anticipation of Roko's basilisk, by
the end of next year, wild speculation about the future of AI will be
replaced by hard decisions about ethics and democracy; 2019 will be the
year that AI grows up."
