# Professor Amy Webb provides her outlook on the future of AI

1 Faculty News December 5, 2018 ![VICE News logo ](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/vice-logo1.jpg?itok=m8lZ7mZ1)>

Excerpt from [Vice](https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yw755b/we-asked-105-experts-what-worries-them-most-about-the-future) --"\[AI\] may be full of commercial opportunity, but not without long-term consequences. We’re the generation living through the great transition in human history—a 70-year transition to a future powered by AI. We must get past our generalized anxiety and fear about that future, and acknowledge that our paranoia or uncurbed exuberance will distract us from making critically important observations—and fixes—in the present."

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