Academic Analysis: Exploring the Future of AI Through Academic Papers and Current Articles


The published paper AI and the Future of Operating Systems describes “the key advancements in technology that define a next-generation OS as Contextual cards and disappearing apps, Extensible semantic framework, User modeling, and Artificial Intelligence grammar” (2016). Published papers often take many years to publish in an academic, peer-reviewed setting. While many of these advancements were explored in modern operating systems, AI advancements in operating systems continue to evolve at a growing rate. For example, a current article The AI Future of Windows is here discusses how the Windows 11 operating system integrates numerous AI features that help users gain a productivity boost in day-to-day tasks through an operating system bot: “Windows Copilot operates similarly to Bing Chat, allowing users to perform Operating System tasks, such as changing Windows to dark mode, rearranging windows with Snap, or asking the Spotify app to play music by placing the requests for the user”(Hoffman, 2023, para. 6). AI integration will allow users to “generate images in Paint with OpenAI’s DALL-E 3 image generation model, create documents with Microsoft 365 Copilot, edit videos with Microsoft’s Clipchamp video editor, and extract text with the snipping tool with the support of the Operating System integration”. The article notes that many of these features require paid subscriptions. While the possibilities of AI integration seem endless for users, security becomes a serious question when AI gains instant access to all of your user data on your computer, hackers do also. As an industry, we must encourage innovation while prioritizing security. By integrating AI, we lose privacy and data security while gaining a new approach to performing tasks in our daily lives. Should the operating system be held responsible for data privacy and security? Maybe, but that’s a lot of responsibility to place in the hands of one organization that governs and views all the data of the entire world. When considering the Google giant that manages our browsing, emails, cell phones, computers, and apps, it may seem comparable; however, the downgrade permissions that allow the operating system to perform tasks for the user with AI assistance expose users to new threats that gain system level permissions that require equal advancements in security to combat malicious actors in an everchanging threat environment.


Reference  


Bura, S. (2016, September 1). AI and the Future of Operating Systems. 36(1-2), 127-131. https://content.iospress.com/articles/information-services-and-use/isu794


Hoffman, C. (2023, September 22). The AI future of Windows is here. Computerworld. https://www.computerworld.com/article/3707254/microsoft-windows-ai-future.html


Vishwakarma, S. (2021). AI Based OS: Future of Operating System. In National Conference on “Unprecedented and Advanced Concepts of Computer Vision” NCUACC-2021 (pp. 16-18). International Journal of Trend in Research and Development, 2394-9333. Retrieved from http://www.ijtrd.com/papers/IJTRD22752.pdf

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