How is AI Changing the World? Where is it going?

Google's AI says this about how AI is changing the world:
Artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming the world by enhancing efficiency, creating new opportunities, and revolutionizing industries from healthcare and finance to transportation and entertainment. AI's ability to analyze vast datasets and automate complex tasks improves decision-making and fosters innovation, leading to personalized services, advancements in medical diagnosis and treatment, and the development of autonomous systems. However, this transformation also raises concerns about job displacement, data privacy, and the ethical implications of AI in areas like warfare, making ongoing societal and ethical considerations essential.
Key Areas of Transformation

• **Healthcare: **AI is improving disease diagnosis, personalizing treatment plans, and assisting in surgeries, leading to faster and more accurate outcomes.
• **Finance: **AI helps in fraud detection, credit assessment, and automating processes, increasing efficiency and reducing costs.
• **Transportation: **AI powers self-driving cars by enabling them to perceive their environment and navigate, while also optimizing logistics for shipping and aviation.
• **Education: **AI offers personalized learning experiences for students and serves as a support system for teachers, helping to simplify complex concepts and bridge educational gaps.
• **Work and Economy: **AI creates new job opportunities, particularly in data analysis and software development, while automating repetitive tasks, allowing human workers to focus on strategic thinking and creativity.
• **Customer Experience: **AI provides personalized product recommendations, enables real-time support through chatbots, and improves customer service efficiency.
• **Content Creation and Entertainment: **AI algorithms recommend personalized music and movie suggestions on streaming services, and generative AI can create music, scripts, and art.
  Benefits of AI
• **Increased Efficiency: **AI automates tasks, leading to greater speed and precision in operations.
• **Enhanced Decision-Making: **AI's ability to analyze data provides deeper insights and supports better strategic planning.
• **Innovation and New Products: **AI accelerates the development of new products and services by identifying market opportunities.

Challenges and Ethical Considerations

• Job Displacement: The automation of tasks by AI raises concerns about potential job losses for human workers.
• Data Privacy: The widespread collection and use of data for AI systems raise significant privacy concerns.
• Ethical Dilemmas: The use of AI in autonomous weapons systems presents complex ethical challenges regarding targeting and collateral damage.
• Accuracy and Reliability: Concerns persist about the accuracy and reliability of AI systems, particularly when they are used in critical applications.

Intel suggests how AI is/will be used:

• AI in Energy: AI is being used to make utility power grids smarter, more efficient, and more stable by matching system load and supply in near-real time, improving grid resilience by predicting outages and dispatching repair crews, and monitoring for potential environmental hazards and predictive maintenance.
• AI in Financial Services: AI is helping to facilitate algorithmic stock trading.
• AI in Government: AI data analytics and automation is helping enhance public services and government operations and improved decision-making.
• AI in Manufacturing: AI is driving process automation, supply chain optimization, and data-driven decision-making to optimize manufacturing productivity, quality, and efficiency.
• AI in Retail: AI is helping to personalize shopping experiences, manage inventory and supply chain logistics efficiently, and analyze customer behaviors to help predict trends and inform marketing initiatives.
• AI in Telecommunications: AI is helping to optimize network operations, predict and prevent service disruptions, and enable better customer interactions with personalized chatbots.
• AI for Sustainability: Leading-edge companies are applying AI to help reduce their environmental footprint, accelerate positive change in meeting decarbonization goals, and identify opportunities for greater efficiency and growth to help combat climate change.

AI Therapists (In MIT Technology Reviews)
In Silicon Valley’s imagined future, AI models are so empathetic that we’ll use them as therapists. They’ll provide mental-health care for millions, unimpeded by the pesky requirements for human counselors, like the need for graduate degrees, malpractice insurance, and sleep. Down here on Earth, something very different has been happening.
Last week, we published a story about people finding out that their therapists were secretly using ChatGPT during sessions. In some cases it wasn’t subtle; one therapist accidentally shared his screen during a virtual appointment, allowing the patient to see his own private thoughts being typed into ChatGPT in real time. The model then suggested responses that his therapist parroted.

There is some evidence AI can deliver more standardized, "manualized" therapies like CBT [cognitive behavioral therapy] reasonably effectively. So it’s possible it could be more useful for that. But that is AI specifically designed for that purpose, not general-purpose tools like ChatGPT.
**https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/09/1123386/help-my-therapist-is-secretly-using-chatgpt/**

1. How does/will AI affect jobs across industries?
2. What about "garbage in - garbage out"?