Here are some of the the major AI trends shaping 2026 — based on current expert forecasts, industry reports, and recent developments in technology. The material is analyzed using AI tools and final version hand-edited to this blog text:
1. Generative AI Continues to Mature
Generative AI (text, image, video, code) will become more advanced and mainstream, with notable growth in:
* Generative video creation
* Gaming and entertainment content generation
* Advanced synthetic data for simulations and analytics
This trend will bring new creative possibilities — and intensify debates around authenticity and copyright.
2. AI Agents Move From Tools to Autonomous Workers
Rather than just answering questions or generating content, AI systems will increasingly act autonomously, performing complex, multi-step workflows and interacting with apps and processes on behalf of users — a shift sometimes called agentic AI. These agents will become part of enterprise operations, not just assistant features.
3. Smaller, Efficient & Domain-Specific Models
Instead of “bigger is always better,” specialized AI models tailored to specific industries (healthcare, finance, legal, telecom, manufacturing) will start to dominate in many enterprise applications. These models are more accurate, legally compliant, and cost-efficient than general models.
4. AI Embedded Everywhere
AI won’t be an add-on feature — it will be built into everyday software and devices:
* Office apps with intelligent drafting, summarization, and task insights
* Operating systems with native AI
* Edge devices processing AI tasks locally
This makes AI pervasive in both work and consumer contexts.
5. AI Infrastructure Evolves: Inference & Efficiency Focus
More investment is going into inference infrastructure — the real-time decision-making step where models run in production — thereby optimizing costs, latency, and scalability. Enterprises are also consolidating AI stacks for better governance and compliance.
6. AI in Healthcare, Research, and Sustainability
AI is spreading beyond diagnostics into treatment planning, global health access, environmental modeling, and scientific discovery. These applications could help address personnel shortages and speed up research breakthroughs.
7. Security, Ethics & Governance Become Critical
With AI handling more sensitive tasks, organizations will prioritize:
* Ethical use frameworks
* Governance policies
* AI risk management
This trend reflects broader concerns about trust, compliance, and responsible deployment.
8. Multimodal AI Goes Mainstream
AI systems that understand and generate across text, images, audio, and video will grow rapidly, enabling richer interactions and more powerful applications in search, creative work, and interfaces.
9. On-Device and Edge AI Growth
10. New Roles: AI Manager & Human-Agent Collaboration
Instead of replacing humans, AI will shift job roles:
* People will manage, supervise, and orchestrate AI agents
* Human expertise will focus on strategy, oversight, and creative judgment
This human-in-the-loop model becomes the norm.
Sources:
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Anthropic’s Claude hits #1 on the App Store after CEO refuses Pentagon demands to weaponize AI.
In a high-stakes clash between tech ethics and national security, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei has taken a firm stand by refusing to remove safeguards that prevent the use of his company’s AI for mass surveillance and autonomous weaponry. Following the refusal, the Trump administration labeled Anthropic a “supply-chain risk” and ordered federal agencies to phase out its technology, essentially blacklisting the firm. While competitors like OpenAI moved to secure deals with the Defense Department shortly after, the move has ignited a massive public debate over the moral boundaries of artificial intelligence in modern warfare and domestic governance.
The public response to Anthropic’s defiance was swift and overwhelming, propelling the Claude app to the top of the Apple App Store and dethroning ChatGPT. Driven by a surge in signups and subscriptions from users supporting the company’s ethical stance, the shift signals a potential turning point in consumer behavior where safety and transparency outweigh government-aligned growth. By choosing principles over political pressure, Anthropic has not only challenged the defense industry’s status quo but also demonstrated that responsibility can be a powerful driver of market success in the rapidly evolving AI race.
source: Allyn, B. (2026). Trump orders federal agencies to stop using Anthropic tech over AI safety dispute. NPR.
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Corporate employees said Amazon’s race to roll out AI is leading to surveillance, slop and ‘more work for everyone’.
Reworked
Amazon is determined to use AI for everything – even when it slows down work
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/ng-interactive/2026/mar/11/amazon-artificial-intelligence?CMP=fb_gu&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Facebook&fbclid=IwdGRjcAQfo69jbGNrBB-jh2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHvCoJmYuUbFu1Vpc1AWKz2wjwn87pN_lyJJR8GZha911RhUS1zEoJofkBCv2_aem_cNmXsmDBZiLiktnJE9sPbA
When Dina, a software developer based in New York, joined Amazon two years ago, her job was to write code. Now, it’s mostly fixing what artificial intelligence breaks.
The internal AI tool she’s expected to use, called Kiro, frequently hallucinates and generates flawed code, she says. Then she has to dig through and correct the sloppy code it creates, or just revert all changes and start again. She says it feels like “trying to AI my way out of a problem that AI caused”.
“I and many of my colleagues don’t feel that it actually makes us that much faster,” Dina said. “But from management, we are certainly getting messaging that we have to go faster, this will make us go faster, and that speed is the number one priority.”
Just days after speaking to the Guardian, Dina was laid off.
Lisa, a supply chain engineer who has worked at Amazon for over a decade, says that AI tools at work have been helpful to her only in about one in every three attempts. And even then, she often finds issues and has to consult with colleagues to verify and correct their results, which takes up more time than if she’s done the task without AI.
She doesn’t take issue with the AI tools themselves, but rather the company’s logic in pushing all employees to use them daily. “You don’t look at the problem and go, ‘How do I use this hammer I have?’ she said. “You look at it and go, ‘Is this a problem for a hammer or something else?’”
More than a half a dozen current and former Amazon corporate employees, in roles ranging from software engineer to user experience researcher to data analyst, told the Guardian that Amazon is pressing employees to integrate AI across all aspects of their work, even though these workers say this push is hurting productivity. They say Amazon is rolling out AI use in a haphazard way while also tracking their AI use, and they’re worried the company is essentially using them to train their eventual bot replacements. All of this, they said, is demoralizing. The Guardian granted these workers anonymity because of their fear of professional repercussions.
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AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than Ever
Even if AI does increase productivity, it’s not exactly good news for workers.
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More and more research shows that introducing AI in the workplace is actually forcing employees to work harder, instead of making their jobs easier.
The latest comes from a new analysis from ActivTrak of over 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. After examining their activity 180 days before and after the employees started using AI at work, the software company found that AI “intensified” their jobs in nearly every category, the Wall Street Journal reported. The time they spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business software surged by 94 percent.
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AI Is Forcing Employees to Work Harder Than Ever
Even if AI does increase productivity, it’s not exactly good news for workers.
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More and more research shows that introducing AI in the workplace is actually forcing employees to work harder, instead of making their jobs easier.
The latest comes from a new analysis from ActivTrak of over 164,000 workers’ digital work activity. After examining their activity 180 days before and after the employees started using AI at work, the software company found that AI “intensified” their jobs in nearly every category, the Wall Street Journal reported. The time they spent on email, messaging, and chat apps more than doubled, while their use of business software surged by 94 percent.
Strikingly, this came at the expense of the time workers spent on highly focused, uninterrupted work, which fell by 9 percent for AI users, and stayed the same for AI abstainers. The study suggests that there may be a “sweet spot” of AI usage, citing the finding that workers who spent 7 to 10 percent of their total work hours using AI showed the highest productivity, but only three percent of AI users fell in this range.
“It’s not that AI doesn’t create efficiency,” Gabriela Mauch, ActivTrak’s chief customer officer and head of its productivity lab, told the WSJ. “It’s that the capacity it frees up immediately gets repurposed into doing other work, and that’s where the creep is likely to happen.”
The findings, which the WSJ reports is one of the biggest studies on AI’s effects on work habits so far, come fresh off a study published by Harvard Business Review that also concluded AI was intensifying work instead of reducing workloads. In the ongoing study, which focused on employees at a tech firm where AI usage was voluntary, the researchers found that AI caused a “workload creep,” in which the employees unknowingly took on more tasks than was sustainable for them to keep up. In this vicious cycle, AI raised expectations on the speed that workers had to perform, which in turn made them more reliant on AI to keep up with the greater demands.
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In short, the time that workers might be saving by using AI isn’t being passed on to the workers. It only raises their own expectations, or their bosses’ expectations, of how much work they should do — which has them going straight back into AI tools; the ActivTrak data showed that the average time workers spent using them has risen eightfold from two years ago, per the WSJ, with AI adoption rising to 80 percent.
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Open and Shut
Grammarly Forgot to Mention Something in Its Giant Apology That Changes the Whole Story
It’s a glaring omission.
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Grammarly’s “Expert Review” feature, which was quietly rolled out last year, angered countless journalists, authors, and academics, who found that they were being impersonated without their permission.
Following an enormous backlash — and telling people being impersonated that they should email the company to opt out — Grammarly’s parent company, Superhuman, made a sudden reversal.
In a Wednesday LinkedIn post, CEO Shishir Mehrotra publicly apologized in a wordy post, saying that “over the past week, we received valid critical feedback from experts who are concerned that the agent misrepresented their voices.”
The suit “challenges Grammarly’s misappropriation of the names and identities of hundreds of journalists, authors, writers, and editors to earn profits for Grammarly and its owner, Superhuman.”
“I have worked for decades honing my skills as a writer and editor, and I am distressed to discover that a tech company is selling an imposter version of my hard-earned expertise,” said Angwin in a statement.
Superhuman appears to have been blindsided by the outrage its impersonating bot stirred up.
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Mea Culpa
Grammarly Is Pulling Down Its Explosively Controversial Feature That Impersonates Writers Without Their Permission
“We hear the feedback and recognize we fell short on this.”
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/grammarly-pulls-down-expert-review-feature?fbclid=IwVERDUAQf4rdleHRuA2FlbQIxMABzcnRjBmFwcF9pZAwzNTA2ODU1MzE3MjgAAR659x12wMTN-auh8ydmxoNfKHF1qGxe2zeNA2jTGw_yycP7CW8W2smnkdqx-g_aem_edN3A2XUH5FZFz1oCJwEoA
Grammarly infuriated journalists, authors, and academics with its “Expert Review” feature, which impersonated writers — both dead and alive — without their permission.
In Grammar’s telling, the tool allows users to “take your writing to the next level” by making suggestions inspired by “leading professionals, authors, and subject-matter experts.”
The feature, which was only accessible beyond a free trial via the company’s $12-a-month Pro subscription, caused an explosively negative reaction.
“You rapacious information and identity thieves better get ready for me to go full McConaughey on you,” seethed tech journalist Kara Swisher, whose advice the feature claimed to offer. “Also, you suck.”
references from these experts “are for informational purposes only and do not indicate any affiliation with Grammarly or endorsement by those individuals or entities.”
Nonetheless, the company’s use of people’s names without their sign-off became a bitter flashpoint in the AI discourse. Even a virtual version of Newton himself was found handing out writing advice.
“I’ve long assumed that before too long, AI might take my job,” he wrote on Platformer. “I just assumed that someone would tell me when it happened.”
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Peer Review
Grammarly Offering Manuscript Reviews by AI Versions of Recently Deceased Professors
“I have seen a lot of cursed stuff in my time in academia but this is among the most cursed.”
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You’re Gonna Be Unpopular
People Really, Really Despise AI — Even More Than ICE, Poll Finds
Yikes.
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/hate-ai-more-ice-poll?fbclid=IwdGRjcAQgC25jbGNrBCALYGV4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHpfVroARrQ57BXxL9T5Kr6OymrznhBNA7A-k3afpLafW31ySXo4HTw9nTcoZ_aem_XGDqt3j-IZw21_JzfcEimQ
Anti-AI sentiment surged over the last year as the hype surrounding the tech showed no signs of slowing down. Industry’s obsession with the tech has driven up electricity bills, been used to justify mass layoffs, and even helped the US military determine where to drop bombs on Iran.
It’s also quickly become an insufferable and practically inescapable part of everyday life, minting plenty of critics who range from average Americans to top AI researchers.
The backlash is enormous. According to a new national survey conducted by NBC News, AI is viewed even more negatively than the US Immigration and Customs Enforcement, the militarized agency that has been embroiled in major controversy over its brutal deportation program, including the fatal shooting of unarmed civilians.
According to the poll, only 26 percent of 1,000 registered voter respondents said they viewed AI positively, while a far bigger proportion of 46 percent viewed it negatively. In total, AI’s net favorability rating stands at a dismal negative 20 points.
Only the Democratic Party and Iran scored more negatively than AI, while ICE and Donald Trump scored slightly less terribly, with -18 and -12 points, respectively.
The shocking results once again highlight major disillusionment surrounding AI, an indictment underlining a growing schism between the excitement felt by company leaders and the quickly waning enthusiasm of their employees, who are being told to use the tech often against their will — potentially making their own roles redundant.
The optics of the Department of Defense employing AI to select targets in their bombing of Iran is certainly not helping, although it remains unclear how much the subject played a role for the poll respondents.
Anthropic’s high-profile fight with the Department of Defense over where to draw the lines of ethical AI use in warfare, which culminated in the company suing the Pentagon today, also kicked off late last month in the days leading up to the start of the war.
Despite the pushback, Silicon Valley leaders and the Trump administration believe that AI represents the future. Tech giants continue to pour hundreds of billions of dollars into vast AI data center buildouts, which themselves have proven unpopular.
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Against the Machine
The Rage at OpenAI Has Grown So Immense That There Are Entire Protests Against It
“What OpenAI is doing in terms of building legal mass surveillance technology for the government… is frankly, insane.”
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OpenAI has faced protests on and off for years. But after its CEO Sam Altman announced a new deal with the Department of Defense over how its AI systems would be deployed across the military on Friday, it’s being barraged with an intensity of backlash that the company has never seen.
Droves of loyal ChatGPT users declared they were jumping shipping to Claude, whose maker Anthropic had pointedly refused to cut a deal with the Pentagon that gives it unrestricted access to its AI system — even in the face of government threats to seize the company’s tech. Claude quickly surged to the top of the app store, supplanting OpenAI’s chatbot. Uninstalls of the ChatGPT app spiked by nearly 300 percent.
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The Nordic AI Inflection Point: Value Creation or Value Bubble?
https://www.bcg.com/publications/2026/nordic-ai-value-creation-or-bubble?utm_source=linkedin&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=ai&utm_description=paid&utm_topic=ai&utm_geo=nordics&utm_content=nordic-report&linkId=917415763&fbclid=IwdGRjcAQga71leHRuA2FlbQEwAGFkaWQBqyzKcn7SfnNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHmdzNv7-6ieHlzwe5M_08o_edu5U1sfh5H9IZboUq7HbP4NnwhVF1YF7cbvs_aem_d8DifGmdvFpA9p1BL71pOQ&utm_term=120239062419180094&utm_id=120239060662380094
Key Takeaways
Nordic business executives are treating AI as a top strategic priority—yet, today, only 4% of companies see meaningful ROI (returns of at least five times their AI investment) on a par with global and EU competitors.
However, Nordic companies’ 2029 impact expectations are 2–3x higher than that of global competitors, raising the stakes for delivering on bold ambitions.
Concerningly, Nordic companies direct a disproportionate share of AI investment toward off-the-shelf productivity tools (~40%–50% vs. 8%–11% for global and EU competitors). By contrast, global leaders invest far more in transformative, end-to-end use cases, which typically generate higher ROI.
If the ROI gap persists, Nordic economies face a real risk of a local AI value bubble and could lose significant ground to global and EU competitors.
Enabling transformative AI value creation requires five key components: top-down strategic direction, ownership across the entire business, cross-functional teaming, executive governance, and strategic buildouts of enabling technology.
AI adoption is now nearly universal among Nordic companies. Yet, despite rapid uptake and substantial investment, AI is falling short of its promise in terms of delivered value, with realized returns that remain strikingly limited: only 4% of Nordic companies report achieving returns of at least five times their AI investment.
This gap between investment and impact is not unique to the Nordics, but it is a growing cause for concern. To better understand the underlying drivers, BCG spoke with more than 300 executive leaders and managers across mid and large cap companies in the region.
The findings reveal a clear paradox. Despite limited AI returns today, Nordic executives express exceptionally high confidence in future value creation. They expect AI to drive revenue growth of roughly 30% and cost reductions of around 25% by 2029. These expectations are significantly higher than those reported by European and global peers, placing the Nordics at the upper end of the ambition curve.
This misalignment between current returns and future expectations risks creating an AI value bubble for the region and therefore demands a rethink of current AI investment patterns. Compared with global competitors, Nordic companies allocate a disproportionate share of AI spending to off-the-shelf tools that layer onto existing processes and deliver incremental productivity improvements. At the same time, they underinvest in transformative initiatives that fundamentally redesign end-to-end workflows and operating models. While incremental use cases do deliver benefits, our research shows that they rarely produce the step-change impact required to unlock the full value of AI and create durable competitive advantage.
With the rapid emergence of agentic AI, the imperative to move beyond incremental use cases is intensifying. Nordic companies are actively engaging in agentic AI: 54% report experimenting with agents, while a further 24% are observing and planning as the technology matures. However, investment levels remain relatively modest compared with global leaders, raising the risk that Nordic companies capture only incremental gains while competitors move ahead with more comprehensive automation.
Nordic companies clearly believe in AI and are prepared to invest, but our discussions with business executives point to a set of structural constraints—rooted in organizational design, decision-making, and governance—that complicate execution. In particular, the prevalence of decentralized and federated operating models in the Nordics (over 50% of respondent companies) limits clear ownership and execution capacity, while fragmented governance, data constraints, and legacy systems further restrict companies’ ability to scale AI initiatives effectively.
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Logistiikkayritys paljastaa: Noin 75 prosenttia uusista kaupoista Suomeen tulee nyt AI:n kautta
Kuinka pieni tiimi voi napata ”isoja kaloja” kilpaillulla logistiikka-alalla? Aberg paljastaa, että 75 prosenttia heidän uusista kaupoistaan Suomessa tulee nyt Sera AI:n kautta. Tekoäly on osoittautunut myynnissä ihmistä rohkeammaksi ja avannut ovia miljoonaluokan asiakkaille.
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Industry experts have identified the jobs most likely to disappear in the next decade. From automated roles to outdated professions, find out if your career is on the endangered list and what you should do about it.
These Are The Jobs That Won’t Survive Another Decade, According to Experts
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1. Accountants
The rise of accounting software over the past decade has almost rendered a lot of accountants useless, as they client base goes digital.
What, at one point, would have been a job that only a qualified professional could do, has become a job that AI excels at, for a much cheaper price.
2. Farm workers
Technology has now taken over farming, with drones monitoring crops and tractors doing their work without needing a human to operate them.
3. Traditional taxi drivers
pre-paid, online taxi services such as Uber and Lyft are putting an end to the now-old-fashioned traditional taxi service.
4. Train engineers
5. Cashiers
Self-service checkouts provide shoppers with an easy, communication-free way of shopping, which is becoming more and more reliable as the years go by.
6. Warehouse workers
Advanced robots with sensors are beginning to take over warehouses
7. Bus drivers
Bus drivers may be the first to go when driverless vehicles become commonplace on the roads of our cities and towns.
8. Admin assistants
Artificial intelligence is capable of automating many tasks currently performed by admin assistants, such as organizing documents and updating computer records.
9. Data entry keyers
One of the last places that you want human error to play its part is in the data entry department.
10. Translators
AI-based tools can also translate spoken words now, which could soon diminish the importance of the once-vital, human translators.
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What’s the potential for AI-powered services?
AI-powered services have tremendous potential to transform industries, particularly in the utility sector. Here are some potential applications:
Key Areas of Transformation:
- Grid Management and Energy Forecasting: AI can optimize grid operations, predict energy demand, and balance supply and demand dynamically, integrating renewables and reducing greenhouse gas emissions.
- Customer Engagement: AI-powered chatbots and virtual assistants can provide personalized customer interactions, improving efficiency and strengthening customer relationships.
- Predictive Maintenance: AI-driven predictive maintenance can detect potential equipment failures, reducing downtime and increasing reliability.
- Energy Efficiency: AI can optimize energy consumption, predict and prevent energy waste, and promote sustainable practices.
- Smart Homes and Energy Hubs: AI-based smart home systems can help homeowners monitor and adjust energy usage, reducing costs and minimizing demand on the grid.
Real-World Examples:
- Duke Energy: Partnered with Microsoft and Accenture to develop an AI-powered platform for real-time leak detection and response in natural gas pipelines.
- AES: Used AI-powered predictive maintenance to reduce unnecessary repairs by $1 million annually and customer outages by 10%.
- Con Edison: Leveraged AI-powered tools to lower power generation costs and reduce CO₂ emissions.
- Siemens Energy: Developed a digital twin for heat recovery steam generators, predicting corrosion and potentially saving utilities $1.7 billion annually.
Benefits:
- Improved operational efficiency
- Enhanced customer experience
- Increased reliability and resilience
- Reduced costs and emissions
- Better resource management and sustainability
Overall, AI-powered services can unlock significant value in the utility sector, driving innovation, efficiency, and sustainability
Tomi Engdahl says:
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Tomi Engdahl says:
Analyysi: Taloyhtiön remontti paljasti tekoälytauhkan ongelman – kuka tahansa voi tuottaa vakuuttavan näköistä roskaa
Puolet internetistä on jo tekoälyllä luotua tauhkaa. Yhä useammin viranomaisten resursseja kuluu roskavalitusten perkaamiseen, kirjoittaa taloustoimittaja Heikki Valkama.
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Kun kuka tahansa voi tuottaa loputtomasti roskaa, internet täyttyy tästä roskasta. Viime syksynä julkaistu arvio kertoo, että jo puolet kaikesta internetissä on tätä ai-tauhkaa.
Muuttuuko kaikki roskaksi?
Tauhka ei kuitenkaan ole harmitonta. Tutkijat varoittavat, että jos internet täyttyy tekoälytauhkasta, tekoälymallit alkavat kouluttaa itseään omalla roskallaan. Tämä johtaa tekoälyjärjestelmien laadun romahtamiseen, mikä on riski kaikille niille viranomaisille ja yrityksille, jotka luottavat tekoälypohjaiseen analytiikkaan.
Tuore, mutta täysin looginen jatkumo on AI-tauhkan leviäminen kaikille elämänalueille. Esimerkiksi vakuutusyhtiöt, isännöitsijät, juristit törmäävät jo tekoälyllä luotuihin loputtoman pitkiltä tuntuviin teksteihin, joilla on tarkoitus valittaa ja käräjöidä.
Juristi Julia Sieppi totesi haastattelussani näin: ”Olen pahoillani niiden maallikoiden puolesta, jotka tekoälyn tekemän lausuman käräjäoikeuteen toimittavat, koska he saattavat ymmärtämättään aiheuttaa aika paljon maksettavaa itselleen”.
Parhaimmillaan avuksi tauhkaa ja valituksia läpikäymään voi toki ottaa tekoälytyökalut, jotka seulovat vaikkapa tekoälyllä tuotetut valitukset. Haastattelemani isännöitsijä totesi, että vastaan tulee kuitenkin oikeusturva. Tekoälyllä tuotettu älytön ja pitkä valitus saattaa sisältää valittajan oikeusturvan kannalta tärkeän asian. Se on pakko käydä läpi.
Vaikutukset politiikkaan jo nähtävissä
Työnantajat pohtivat tarkkaan, voiko tekoälyllä käydä läpi edes tekoälyllä generoituja työhakemuksia.
Kukin voi itse päättää, mitä ajattelee tulevaisuudenvisiosta, jossa koneet täyttävät hakemuksia, joita koneet käsittelevät ja joista koneet reklamoivat.
Vaikkapa Kela on ilmoittanut käyttävänsä jatkossa käsittelevänsä 80 prosenttia tukihakemuksista koneella ja hyödyntävänsä myös tekoälyä.
On selvää, että tekoäly on hyödyllinen työkalu. Jos tekoäly auttaa parantamaan cv:tä, tekemään paremmin muotoillun valituksen väärästä viranomaispäätöksestä tai helpottaa monimutkaisten lomakkeiden täyttämistä, siinä ei ole mitään väärää.
Mutta vaikka kielimallit ovat hyvä apu, tekoälytauhka on pesuvesi, joka tulee lapsen mukana.
On jo tilanteita, jossa viranomainen joutuu käyttämään niukkoja resurssejaan tekoälyvalitusten perkaamiseen, ja samalla vaikkapa aidot ja tärkeät valitukset viivästyvät.
Hieman erilainen tuore esimerkki löytyy Kaliforniasta. Siellä tekoälyä käytettiin kaatamaan lakihanke, joka olisi rajoittanut saastuttavien kaasukäyttöisten laitteiden käyttöä.
Los Angeles Times selvitti, että Washingtonissa toimivan CiviClick-niminen yritys tuotti yli 20 000 tavalliselta kansalaispalautteelta vaikuttavaa sähköpostia. Spontaanilta kansalaispalautteelta näyttävän massaliike oli kokonaan tekoälyalustan luoma.
Ei ole vaikea ennustaa, että viranomaisilla on edessään monia tekoälypulmia ratkaistavaksi.