The EHDS prescribes a comprehensive and uniform assessment by the HDAB. A separate ethical assessment adds nothing and hinders science.
Long live AI, says AI
Here goes my job?
Many people are afraid that their jobs are at risk due to AI (see, for example, the ‘most exposed’ list from Anthropic, among others). I decided to turn the question around and asked Gemini: will AI takes over tasks in a way that actually make us happy? Here is her own optimistic answer.
1. AI takes over tasks we'd rather not do
AI is taking over tasks that waste human capital. Consider the administrative tsunami in healthcare or education. Soon, AI will be listening in on a doctor and updating the file in real time. Or think of sifting through 10,000 pages of contracts or solving impossible staffing schedules. Humans lose their chores and free up their hands for real human work, such as applying a bandage and comforting a child.
2. Problems we cannot solve ourselves
Humans are biased—consciously or unconsciously. A well-calibrated AI can serve as a 100% blind, objective scale for job applications or permits, precisely to eliminate human bias. AI can also handle complex systems that exceed the capabilities of our brains, such as balancing our overloaded power grid down to the second or discovering patterns for hyper-personalized medicines.
3. Solutions we did consider possible
AI will not only optimize, but invent fundamentally new things. Think of designing proteins that filter PFAS from our water; definitively breaking the global language barrier with real-time, lifelike translations; or making economically impossible things possible, such as giving every child in the world – from Amsterdam to Timbuktu – a personalized private tutor on a tablet.
Time for humanity
Gem’s own conclusion? “If you look at the work being eliminated, humans are primarily losing the role of ‘flesh-and-blood robot’. When AI takes over tasks, what we get in return are tools to solve the biggest bottlenecks of our species, plus time for the quintessentially human interactions.”
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