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As one consequence of the decision to focus on life in North American cities,
military applications were deemed to be outside the scope of this initial report. This
is not to minimize the importance of careful monitoring and deliberation about
the implications of AI advances for defense and warfare, including potentially
destabilizing developments and deployments.
The report is designed to address four intended audiences. For the general public,
it aims to provide an accessible, scientically and technologically accurate portrayal
of the current state of AI and its potential. For industry, the report describes relevant
technologies and legal and ethical challenges, and may help guide resource allocation.
The report is also directed to local, national, and international governments to help
them better plan for AI in governance. Finally, the report can help AI researchers,
as well as their institutions and funders, to set priorities and consider the ethical and
legal issues raised by AI research and its applications.
Given the unique nature of the One Hundred Year Study on AI, we expect that
future generations of Standing Committees and Study Panels, as well as research
scientists, policy experts, leaders in the private and public sectors, and the general
public, will reect on this assessment as they make new assessments of AI’s future. We
hope that this rst eort in the series stretching out before us will be useful for both its
failures and successes in accurately predicting the trajectory and inuences of AI.
The Standing Committee is grateful to the members of the Study Panel for
investing their expertise, perspectives, and signicant time to the creation of this
inaugural report. We especially thank Professor Peter Stone for agreeing to serve as
chair of the study and for his wise, skillful, and dedicated leadership of the panel,
its discussions, and creation of the report.
Standing Committee of the One Hundred Year Study of Artificial Intelligence
Barbara J. Grosz, Chair Russ Altman Eric Horvitz
Alan Mackworth Tom Mitchell Deidre Mulligan Yoav Shoham
extended deep thought and cross-disciplinary scholarly investigations that could
inspire innovation and provide intelligent advice to government agencies and industry.
This report is the rst in the planned series of studies that will continue for at least
a hundred years. The Standing Committee dened a Study Panel charge for the
inaugural Study Panel in the summer of 2015 and recruited Professor Peter Stone,
at the University of Texas at Austin, to chair the panel. The seventeen-member
Study Panel, comprised of experts in AI from academia, corporate laboratories
and industry, and AI-savvy scholars in law, political science, policy, and economics,
was launched in mid-fall 2015. The participants represent diverse specialties and
geographic regions, genders, and career stages.
The Standing Committee extensively discussed ways to frame the Study Panel
charge to consider both recent advances in AI and potential societal impacts on jobs,
the environment, transportation, public safety, healthcare, community engagement,
and government. The committee considered various ways to focus the study,
including surveying subelds and their status, examining a particular technology
such as machine learning or natural language processing, and studying particular
application areas such as healthcare or transportation. The committee ultimately
chose a thematic focus on “AI and Life in 2030” to recognize that AI’s various uses
and impacts will not occur independently of one another, or of a multitude of other
societal and technological developments. Acknowledging the central role cities have
played throughout most of human experience, the focus was narrowed to the large
urban areas where most people live. The Standing Committee further narrowed the
focus to a typical North American city in recognition of the great variability of urban
settings and cultures around the world, and limits on the rst Study Panel’s eorts.
The Standing Committee expects that the projections, assessments, and proactive
guidance stemming from the study will have broader global relevance and is making
plans for future studies to expand the scope of the project internationally.
STUDY PANEL
Peter Stone, University of Texas at Austin, Chair
Rodney Brooks, Rethink Robotics
Erik Brynjolfsson, Massachussets Institute of Technology
Ryan Calo, University of Washington
Oren Etzioni, Allen Institute for AI
Greg Hager, Johns Hopkins University
Julia Hirschberg, Columbia University
Shivaram Kalyanakrishnan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
Ece Kamar, Microsoft Research
Sarit Kraus, Bar Ilan University
Kevin Leyton-Brown, University of British Columbia
David Parkes, Harvard University
William Press, University of Texas at Austin
AnnaLee (Anno) Saxenian, University of California, Berkeley
Julie Shah, Massachussets Institute of Technology
Milind Tambe, University of Southern California
Astro Teller, X
Acknowledgments: The members of the Study Panel gratefully acknowledge the
support of and valuable input from the Standing Committee, especially the chair,
Barbara Grosz, who handled with supreme grace the unenviable role of mediating
between two large, very passionate committees. We also thank Kerry Tremain for his
tireless and insightful input on the written product during the extensive editing and
polishing process, which unquestionably strengthened the report considerably.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PREFACE
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY 4
OVERVIEW 6
SECTION I: WHAT IS ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE? 12
Defining AI 12
AI Research Trends 14
SECTION II: AI BY DOMAIN 18
Transportation 18
Home/Service Robots 24
Healthcare 25
Education 31
Low-resource Communities 35
Public Safety and Security 36
Employment and Workplace 38
Entertainment 40
SECTION III: PROSPECTS AND RECOMMENDATIONS FOR AI PUBLIC POLICY 42
AI Policy, Now and in the Future 42
APPENDIX I: A SHORT HISTORY OF AI 50
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