Report: Coordinated resilience infrastructure is needed in age of AI

(The Center Square) – Highly coordinated resilience infrastructure is needed in the age of artificial intelligence, says a new report released Thursday from the Elon University Imagining the Digital Future Center.

A survey found 82% believing artificial intelligence will play “a significantly larger role in shaping people’s lives and key societal functions in the next 10 years or less.” The resilience infrastructure is to “counterbalance the human and systemic challenges posed by widespread AI adoption.”

Authored by Janna Anderson and Lee Rainie, the nonscientific canvass was conducted between Dec. 26 and Feb. 12. More than 4,000 experts were invited to respond, drawing 386 responses to at least one aspect and 251 responses to open-ended questions.

“The central risk described by these experts is not a single catastrophic AI event,” said Anderson, professor of communications and senior researcher for the center. “They said accelerated AI use will lead to a cumulative reallocation of human...