AI is everywhere ... now what?

Congress is institutionally incapable of providing an effective legal framework, nor do we want them to try, because any statutes would be obsolete by the time the ink dries. It will therefore be the courts that decide legal issues for AI, but this process will take several years to resolve, so we must all live with uncertainty in the meantime.”

Gary MarchantASU Law professor and faculty director of the Center for Law, Science and Innovation

It’s not going to make the diagnosis for you, but it’s going to make the diagnosis easier, simpler and way quicker. It’s going to identify diagnostic targets more quickly than we have been able to in the past. The thinking isn’t really that different. It’s just putting everything on overdrive.”

Sherine GabrielExecutive vice president of ASU Health

This is the problem with ethics. You can have two sides that will argue from a basis of deep values that they are ethically right, but they will be completely opposed. AI is creating these sorts of conversations.”

Andrew MaynardSchool for the Future of Innovation in Society professor

Generative AI applications look a lot like familiar applications such as search engines or word processing software. So users reasonably expect that generative AI functions the same way as these familiar technologies. But they do not. The challenge is to slow down the decision-making process so that we learn how this technology functions.”

Kyle JensenDepartment of English professor and director of ASU's Writing Programs

I’ve been really intrigued with the centaur model, which came out of chess research. … What I'm trying to do is figure out ways that we can make centaur-type teams — put the best capabilities of AI and the best capabilities of humans together to make a superhuman team.”

Nancy CookePolytechnic School professor and senior scientific advisor of the Center for Human, Artificial Intelligence and Robot Teaming