Computing Futures Symposium: Future of AI Horizons

CCC's Computing Futures Symposium in 2025 included a panel on the Future of AI Horizons. The panel, moderated by Bob Bond (Massachusetts Institute of Technology), featured:

Aarti Singh (AI Institute for Societal Decision Making)
David Jensen (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Bart Selman (Cornell University)
Yolanda Gil (University of Southern California)

The panelists explored critical themes such as:

Responsible AI Development: Singh emphasizes the urgent need to consider societal impacts and integrate human feedback from the earliest design stages, especially in public good domains like disaster management.

Beyond Current Paradigms: Jensen challenges us to look beyond today's dominant LLMs and deep networks, hinting at exciting future research avenues like quantum AI, embodied AI, and neuro-symbolic AI.

Interdisciplinary Convergence: Selman highlights the powerful trend of AI's diverse subfields (language, vision, reasoning) converging, and the crucial role of collaboration with physical and social sciences for true impact.

AI's Transformative Potential: Gil discusses the promise of foundation models in science and medicine, integrated AI systems, and the fascinating intersection of AI software and hardware.

The panel also offers a nuanced view on Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), seeing it as an evolving spectrum focused on assistive technologies, and underscores the vital roles of academia, industry, and government in fostering a collaborative and responsible AI ecosystem.

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