What Is on the Horizon?

This chapter concludes the book by covering a set of issues that we believe will prove to be important for any industry or organization that is actively seeking to incorporate AI systems into their pipelines. We begin with the seemingly outlandish issue of AI copyright that has rapidly become important due to state-of-the-art AI’s success in generating “creative” art and writing. The central question is whether an AI should be allowed to own its own copyright. Related to the question of copyright is one of regulation. Currently, there is a vigorous debate on both regulation of algorithms, as well as regulation by algorithms, since the latter may yield more objective outcomes. Critics point, however, to the dehumanizing effects of such regulation, and to the fact that such algorithms may not be objective to begin with, since they have been trained on (potentially biased) human-generated data. We also cover the important and mainstream issue of legal regulation of Deepfakes and AI’s “explainability crisis” and conclude the chapter and the book with a note on the rapid convergence of AI with other emerging technologies, such as quantum computing.