One prognostication that stood out to me from Ben Shneiderman's 2018 interview was the point that "the mindless acceptance of [machine learning and neural networks'] potency is extremely dangerous because that leads to deadly outcomes." This is especially important in the modern day because with the commercialization of generative AI tools, the public has become dependent, and potentially overconfident, on the tools' outputs. Because of this, I would say Shneiderman's claim is on-point since people have begun to use AI tools for personal tasks without questioning what it produces. People use AI for work to using it for determining illnesses, but it still produces false results. As such Shneiderman's prognostication that AI's influence is dangerous is correct.
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