Ron Runsvold writes, "My biggest concern is that the technology giants will fiddle with AI in a misguided attempt to reflect society as they want it to be rather than what it actually is."
Computer scientists who helped build the foundations of today’s artificial intelligence technology are warning of its dangers, but that doesn’t mean they agree on what those dangers are or how to prevent them.
Denis Hassabis, who is the CEO of DeepMind, a startup that was acquired by Google in 2014, has made a bold claim that AI could reach human-level cognition in as little as five years.
Microsoft's Chief Economist emphasized that people don’t need to worry about AI replacing jobs, instead they should be concerned about the tech falling into wrong hands.