Artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly changing the world, with
seemingly limitless potential to streamline and improve
productivity and our daily lives. Massive investment continues to
spur AI innovation across all industries, as companies and
governments race to harness this transformational new power of
automated analysis and decision-making.
AI bots now routinely act in the real world based on their own
independent calculations, and can learn to perform many of the
higher order tasks, from driving a car to doing taxes. Lawyers use
them to draft documents. Doctors use them to diagnose patients.
Chinese authorities reportedly use them to score the
‘social credit' of citizens. However, we also know that
AI can be error-prone and highly mysterious in its internal
operations. Reported AI challenges and risks range from relatively
harmless inconveniences to the potentially apocalyptic.