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The strong interest in artificial intelligence (AI) was confirmed in 2021 with massive investments in start-ups and software companies. The United States account for two thirds of global investments and leads in the number of unicorns followed by China, the United Kingdom and Israel. To date, France has two unicorns.
Investors are attracted by companies whose valuations can double in a short period of time. The massive investments also reflect emerging trends among users. According to a recent IPSOS and the World Economic Forum survey, two-thirds of adults believe that their lives will be profoundly changed by products and services using AI within 3 to 5 years, 64% consider that they have a good understanding of AI, 50% consider that the benefits of AI are greater than the disadvantages while 39% remain cautious or even anxious.
Only 13% of respondents believe that rights and fundamental freedoms will be affected by these technologies. This proportion is even more surprising than some AI applications directly impacting individual rights and fundamental freedoms have been generalized and tend to be almost normalized in a large number of countries, such as facial recognition in public spaces or image detection technologies supposed to identify illegal behaviour (e.g., Apple's CSAM).
In that context, 2022 trends will echo and reinforce the 2021 trends with:
One question that needs to be addressed more systematically is whether we really need more technology and information. Recently, Oxford University organized a debate with a robot debating with itself about the usefulness of AI. His conclusion was that we are not smart (or evolved) enough to make the right moral or ethical choices, and therefore we should avoid the race for AI by not using AI or by having an AI system implanted into our brains.
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