Panel highlights AI’s growing influence

Artificial intelligence (AI) will play a more important role in 2024, according to a panel at an event held at the British Club in Bangkok yesterday.

The British Council hosted the event, which included five panellists from different sectors who discussed challenges and trends to watch for next year.

Assistant Professor Ake Pattaratanakun of Chulalongkorn Business School said that improvements in AI, especially in generative AI, are not existential threats to society.

“Instead of worrying about AI taking our jobs, we should see AI as a tool we can work with,” she said.

With the rise of ChatGPT, Dall-E and Midjourney, AI technology has become readily accessible, so people ought to understand the new…