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Kate Saenko has answered Uncertain

AI can be programmed to mimic emotions, for example, a synthetic AI-based avatar can produce facial expressions like smiling.

Kate Saenko has answered Likely

Yes. An AI program applied to make decisions about people can discriminate on the basis of demographics or other factors. Specifically, it could make more incorrect predictions on some groups than on others, resulting in unfair outcomes. For example, a program that predicts whether a loan will be repaid might be less accurate on applications filed by residents of one county than another.

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Kate Saenko has answered Likely

It depends on what we mean by "lie". AI can produce factually incorrect predictions or statements, but usually because it is not accurate enough to produce the "truth", not because it is intentionally lying. Since AI is just a program that mimics human intelligence, it can be made to mimic lying, too. For example we can program the AI to sometimes switch the right answer to the wrong one.

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Kate Saenko has answered Likely

AI is a computer making predictions that mimic human intelligence. For example, an AI program can analyze a recording of a person talking and predict what words they said, similar to how a human can understand speech. Theoretically, an AI program does not need to forget if there is infinite storage available. In practice, something like 'forgetting' can happen if an AI program is continuously adjusted on new data but has limited storage, so that the older program becomes overwritten with the new one. In our example, if we keep adjusting AI to new languages, then eventually it might 'forget' how to recognize the earlier language, meaning it would have worse recognition accuracy.

Ian Mahar has answered Extremely Unlikely

Ian Mahar has answered Extremely Unlikely

Although other psychiatric medications such as benzodiazepines can be highly addictive, and some antidepressants such as venlafaxine can have aversive effects when stopped abruptly, we would not say that currently prescribed antidepressants are addictive drugs in general.

Dylan D Thomas has answered Likely

Dylan D Thomas has answered Likely

Dylan D Thomas has answered Near Certain

recognized as such by AMA, WHO, and most major medical societies and organizations

Laurence Delina has answered Likely

Feasible in terms of what? If it's feasibility in terms of technology, it seems likely - following arguments from Stanford's Jacobson, Delucci, et al. If it's feasibility in terms of the necessary policy, financing, and institutional drivers, it is less likely, unless current political, economic, and institutional/governance systems are adequately perturbed. In my Gedankenexperiment of the lessons of rapid wartime mobilisation and its potential application as a policy model, I have shown how it could be possible in these non-technical aspects. This is of course full of caveats. If history is to be used as a basis to respond to the question, then yes, it is feasible to move towards a 100% renewable energy globally.