Shaping society 5.0

Shaping society 5.0

Building trust in AI as a force for good

Building trust in AI as a force for good
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Shaping society 5.0
Shaping society 5.0
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AI is a transformational technology that has the potential to positively shape lives across society, if we build greater digital trust.

Shaping Society 5.01 explores the opportunity presented by AI to be a force for good and an enabler that accelerates progress to a better society and a sustainable world, whether by creating new workplace opportunities, improving patient outcomes, tackling modern slavery or building a safe and secure global food system.

In these essays, BSI’s experts look at the real-world impact of AI and share valuable insights from the BSI Trust in AI Poll, which brings together the views of over 10,000 people in nine countries.

Key insights

  • There is a gap in confidence and understanding of AI, leading to low levels of trust and enthusiasm for AI.
  •  AI is here to stay. 62% of people expect their industries to use AI every day by 2030. Already, many of us currently use AI in everyday technologies like smartphones, smart speakers or chatbots – however, only half of us recognize that these technologies use AI.
  • By 2050 three in ten (29%) say a top priority is for AI to help to reduce our impact on the environment, 28% focus on it improving medical diagnosis and a fifth (22%) pick AI helping to make society fairer and reducing inequality.

Recommendations

  • Embedding digital trust can help strengthen understanding across society to bridge the confidence gap, enabling us to accelerate AI adoption and realize its potential benefits.
  • Shaping society 5.0 is an opportunity to enhance understanding of AI through education and training everyone, especially the next generation, so that they have the skills they need for the future, building greater trust in AI and harnessing its true power of AI.
  • We have an opportunity to collaborate and innovate across society to harness the power of AI to building greater trust in its benefits to society and accelerating progress to a better society and a sustainable world.

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1. Society 5.0 is a term that was used by the Japanese Government in the 5th Science and Technology Basic Plan. It refers to a "human-centred society that balances economic and technological advancement to solve society's problems with super-smart AI data systems". In this essay collection, we use it to refer to a future societal model that we can aspire to.