Dear WG Members, As most of you are probably aware, there was recently a panel discussion in the RIPE NCC Services WG session in Bucharest about AI at the RIPE NCC: https://ripe91.ripe.net/programme/meeting-plan/sessions/33/P8BNJX/ Many of you have probably attended the session either in person or remotely, but for those who did not and are interested, the panel discussion was recorded and you can watch it at any time. The panel was an interactive session with key people from different areas of the RIPE NCC: - Eleonora Pedridou, Chief Information Security Officer - Antony Gollan, Communications Manager - Gabor de Wit, Chief Registry Officer - Robert Kisteleki, Principal Engineer The first two panelists were present on the stage, while the latter two joined remotely. I do not want to go now into too much detail, but I want to summarize that the panelists, after presenting their initial thoughts, reacted to three different questions we asked from the audience via Kahoot. The three questions were about - the opportunities, - the threats - and any other so far uncovered issues related to the use of AI at the RIPE NCC. We got plenty of feedback, in the form of a Word Cloud. The panelists reacted to the items they felt to be most relevant, but obviously, due to time constraints, we were not able to cover all issues raised. I now take the opportunity to list most of the answers given to each question. I tried to list them in the order of the size they appeared on the screen, but this is by no means the order of importance as most answers had a similar size. I also tried to group similar answers. I would like to ask all of you to react to any of these items, if you feel the NCC and the community should take that aspect into consideration. Of course you are welcome to raise any issue that did not show up during the panel discussion. I think the panel discussion was great, as many opinions were expressed by the community both in the Kahoot answers and in the comments at the microphone. It would be very useful to continue this discussion on this mail list. Have fun! Best regards, Janos Opportunities: Automation, Automation of checks, Automation/assistant Efficiency, Speed Data mining Research Measurements Advisory Supporting staff Only for first draft Assistance Fast correlation Help staff Anomaly detection Sanity checking Pattern finding Smart policy search Risk analysis Planning Help support Survival Risks: Hallucination Data leaks Dehumanization Limit of diversity Security Bias False certainty Loss of control Incorrect data Climate impact Unaccountability World domination It's good to learn Data protection Future price rises No more progress Dependence Brain rot Ethical issues Copyright problems MCPs sharing Spiralling costs Untrustworthy answer Abuse Staff decrease Bubble Automation Bias Haven't considered: Environmental impact, Climate impact, The Planet, Environmental cost Costs, The long term costs, Financial costs, Future price rises, Long term cost of AI Keep right balance Dependence Green Local No AI at all? A usage POLICY! Loss of competence AI WG Precision IPR violations World domination Bots talking to bots