More about Artificial Intelligence thought leaders’ role
Here are my thoughts about Artificial Intelligence thought leaders. This post aims to stimulate your thinking, derive ideas, and clarify actions in this area.
It is a freestyle essay, based on my experience, thus my statements may require refinement or total abolition. Please use it with a critical view.
Who are Artificial Intelligence thought leaders
In my opinion, a thought leader is a person who is the best at understanding and describing in a robust, precise, and truthful manner things and phenomena, giving reasonable realistic evaluations to them, and capable of suggesting ways of interacting with them to improve our lives.
So this person has to be knowledgeable, experienced, aware of a wide range of matters, and an expert to a certain extent in the exact topic allowing them to ‘connect the dots’ and help others do that.
With all that said, Artificial Intelligence thought leaders must not only be the best at knowing what AI is but also have reasonable opinions about what it may mean for different areas of life in various scenarios so that other people can use that opinion as a synthesized starting point for further evaluation and understanding AI.
What to expect from Artificial Intelligence thought leader
Leadership in the area of AI is the simplified answer.
This includes but is not limited to identifying AI’s role in different segments of human activities, suggesting risks and mitigations, presenting problems AI can solve or cause, giving ethical evaluations of AI’s complex role, and providing different scenarios for the future with and without AI.
Difference between AI thought leader and technical ‘guru’
I prefer differentiating between Artificial Intelligence thought leaders and highly skilled technical professionals because they act in different ‘layers’.
AI thought leader’s role concentrates on helping others to understand the consequences and opportunities of interacting/using/applying artificial intelligence in various scenarios.
The gurus of AI engineering must not necessarily have a wide vision of AI’s role in a general meaning but rather build flawless, effective, efficient AI tools, which should be capable of solving people’s problems in the best possible way. The same person can hold these unofficial roles.
Do we need to listen to Artificial Intelligence thought leaders
You must choose whether to follow AI thought leaders, but knowing their suggestions and reasons is a good idea.
This tool inevitably gets more applications in everyday life thanks to AI power which exceeds other tools that people used before. To keep up with the pace, depth, and variety of artificial intelligence applications everyone should know what it is, its capabilities, and limitations in the context of a contemporary world.
For the complete image of AI, it is beneficial to know baseline philosophical, ethical, technical, economic, and risk evaluations so that public opinion is ahead of AI evolution and capable of steering artificial intelligence growth beneficially and securely for humanity.
The first ‘say’ should have AI experts, aka thought leaders.
How to become an AI thought leader
Why become one – that should be the preceding question that’ll give energy to achieving this goal. Whenever you have your WHY, it is time to move to HOW.
Becoming a thought leader in my opinion should start with producing authentic thoughts about the Artificial intelligence domain. So exploring AI and understanding it has to become a point of focus leading to more creative thoughts. The next step is validating your thoughts against reality, by reading even more research papers, and talking to someone interested and knowledgeable in this topic, for example by acting in LinkedIn Artificial Intelligence groups. Finally, synthesizing proven and valuable statements to address everyday life, scientific, political, economic, psychological, studying, and other areas with artificial intelligence role in them. Regular reevaluation of AI-related statements and checking their actuality is recommended.
Summary: AI thought leaders are driving the foundation for the definition of AI’s future role that people should give it
AI is a tool. People are the responsible subjects. Thus people must know how to use AI in an ethical and risk-free way. Artificial Intelligence thought leaders help make that happen by establishing baseline evaluations, providing predictions for various usage scenarios, and suggesting human’s role in the process of introducing AI to day-to-day life.
However, after AI thought leaders said their word, it is everyone’s responsibility to develop their thoughts, support them with reasonable opinions, and become conscious artificial intelligence tools’ user.