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WHILE businesses are still exploring the potential of artificial intelligence (AI) and its impact on the digital and physical world around us, a few experts are sure that it will disrupt and transform everything.
One of those experts is United Nations Interregional Crime and Justice Research Institute (UNICRI) Head of Centre for Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Irakli Beridze who will be speaking at the Interpol World Summit in Singapore this week.
Ahead of his presentation, Beridze caught up with Tech Wire Asia to share some glimpses of the future and what businesses could expect in the coming months.
“[AI and robotics] are powerful technologies. To quote the United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres, they can “turbocharge” progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals, making a better world for our people and our planet.”
Beridze shared a few examples from his work in the UN where the agencies hope that AI will be able to help identify and report child abuse material images, spot patterns in financial data that may indicate the presence of human trafficking networks, and monitor payments for irregularities that might indicate fraud or corruption.
“The technology is there and it will have far-reaching effects. It is just up to us to try to balance the positive and negative effects as much as possible to make the most of it.”
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