Ms Fiona Longmuir:

The honest answer is that we do not know how AI is going to shape the years to come. It is becoming an increasing area of interest and an increasing concern. I would bear in mind how we are talking about AI, because people probably talked that way about the Internet. Each emerging technology feels frightening until we understand it and we do not understand the opportunities and limits of artificial intelligence sufficiently at the moment to make a confident prediction as to how it will go.

What I find interesting about artificial intelligence is that it represents an area where that false binary between science and the humanities is shown to be false because the sciences are going to be vital in harnessing artificial intelligence. At the same time, the humanities will be able to do things such as media literacy, which will be increasingly important as artificial intelligence gets more sophisticated.