Wendy Mackay, INRIA

Wendy Mackay, INRIA

We are in a situation now where AI is becoming way more powerful, and as it gets more powerful, we need to think about what is the impact on human beings. I am really interested in the problem of how do you combine human beings and artificial intelligence, and the problem that we often have is that we think of AI as a way of replacing human beings and what we really need to do is to think about AI as a way of empowering people. Making human beings better. We don’t want to de-skill human beings but add new creative opportunities for people and AI should be viewed as a n enhancement and not a way of replacing people.

I am really interested in human being and creativity, creative professionals. How do you create an environment where human beings actually control the technology where the system reveals itself to the user in a way that they can then control it and do more things that they could do before? So that is my challenge, how do we use AI in service of human beings and particularly in human creativity.