How Artificial Intelligence Will Impact The Future Of Fashion

Sophie Hackford spends her time meeting rebel thinkers in remote labs and creative spaces around the globe. Her mission? To find out the technologies that are shaping the future. If the world is becoming a computer, how can the fashion industry use machines to its advantage, or rather, work with them as virtual teammates? “We are being observed and categorized by Artificial Intelligence in parts of our lives that weren’t previously watched,” Hackford begins. “As this great data generator gets closer to us, the only thing that will change is who owns the data and what control we have over it.” The Big Question is whether it’s in consumers’ interests to sell information – a debate that Washington is currently grappling with. After 60 years of disappointments, in which a lot was promised by AI, but not much of it seen, and breaches of trust coming to light, like Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica case, it’s easy to feel disconcerted by the increasing amount of information the world has at its fingertips. Read more at Vogue.