Safeguarding the Future of Artificial Intelligence: An AI Blueprint

Current developments in artificial intelligence, such as ChatGPT, Stable Diffusion or Deep Fakes, pose new challenges to our society. It is becoming increasingly difficult to distinguish whether we are dealing with real, human-generated content or fictitious works. Nevertheless, these developments show the possibilities that artificial intelligence offers and new potential applications for companies and society. The challenges of our time, such as climate change, energy crisis, and wars, require people to rely on technology and are able to deploy it successfully. The path to a safe world with AI includes several topics. It starts with the experts who work in this field. In addition to sound training in the technologies, they must also adhere to ethical and moral standards. A diversity among experts is a basic prerequisite for the development of algorithms and models that are energy efficient. When experts therefore work toward the ethical and sustainable implementation of their work, they align with the Sustainable Development Goals. The time of AI black boxes is over. Only explainable, trustworthy, and transparent solutions have a chance to prevail. Since this may not be the most important concern to large populations of the field, efforts to change that have to be taken. The sole development of models is no longer sufficient. In order to roll out AI safely in companies or in everyday life, many aspects must be taken into account. For this purpose, this chapter provides a construction plan that covers all important aspects of building sustainably feasible AI.