The Ethics of AI Will Prove More Important Than the Technology

Artificial intelligence could be the future of humanity and we must not let it slip out of our control

- JASPREET BINDRA

My first two articles of the three-part series where I predict what AI will bring in 2025 and beyond focused on the human-artificial intelligence (AI) relationship and AI agents. The last one focuses on the theme of AI ethics and literacy.

Prediction nine of twelve—Chat is the new search: For too long, we have been subjected to the tyranny of the '10 blue links of Google,' many of which are often tailored by what advertisers want rather than the answers you are looking for. GenAI-based chat search engines like Perplexity.ai and OpenAI's SearchGPT promise to change that by scouring the web and relevant websites to provide you with answers you want in a conversational format (along with the sources). This is a new, uncluttered and intuitive search experience, and has drawn even behemoths like Google and Microsoft to experiment with this new way to search. The trend is bigger than what the old search-bar set off, and even online chats. Search became the way to 'organise' the internet and Google benefited hugely from it. Now, organizing all the information on the Web will perhaps shift to AI, with its chats, agents and human-friendly interfaces. There are obstacles along the way, as a probabilistic GenAI-based search engine will never be as accurate as the deterministic database of a traditional search engine, but this trend is irreversible.