What To Expect From AI This Year
Five predictions for 2025 from experts and industry insiders.
What lies ahead for AI in 2025? Tharin Pillay and I asked experts across industry and civil society, including renowned futurist Ray Kurzweil and U.N. tech envoy Amandeep Singh Gill, what they expect to see this year. Read the piece now in TIME’s special issue for Davos 2025, published ahead of the World Economic Forum's Annual Meeting next week.
In this edition, you’ll also find a story by Billy Perrigo exploring the U.K.'s AI Safety Institute, a government initiative where AI researchers and national-security officials conduct tests to determine whether new AIs are capable of facilitating biological, chemical, or cyberattacks—or even escaping the control of their creators.
The U.K. may have successfully negotiated access to these AI models, allowing safety tests to proceed. But this access is voluntarily provided by the AI companies. So can the AISI really hold them to account?
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