Five big questions about AI in 2024
Five key questions that will define the technology’s trajectory from here Illustration by Woojoo Im. Source: Getty. December 29, 2023, 10 AM ET This is Atlantic Intelligence, an eight-week series in which The Atlantic’s leading thinkers on AI help you understand the complexity and opportunities of this groundbreaking technology. Sign up here. What will next year hold for AI? In a new story, Atlantic staff writer Ross Andersen looks ahead, outlining five key questions that will define the technology’s trajectory from here. A big one: How will it affect the election? “Many blamed the spread of lies through social media for enabling [Donald] Trump’s victory in 2016, and for helping him gin up a conspiratorial insurrection following his 2020 defeat,” Andersen writes. “But the tools of misinformation that were used in those elections were crude compared with those that will be available next year.” Thank you for reading Atlantic Intelligence. This is the final edition of our initial eight-week series. But keep an eye out for new entries later in 2024—we’re sure there will be …