Volume 24
June 2018 Edition
critically about how best to ensure
public safety and guarantee account-
ability regarding AI deployment.
As Accenture points out, clarifying
these questions will bring great-
er certainty to the marketplace,
thereby promoting the develop-
ment of responsible AI – catalyz-
ing what is a virtuous cycle in AI
progress.
(How is AI dangerous? Let’s find out when Elon Musk gets asked this question in
this interview.)
AI-powered applications can
help humans make better
decisions more efficiently.
In the final analysis, how-
Blind reliance on technology most often spells
ever, AI at its best is an immensely
trouble – as when we blindly adhere to spell
valuable tool – not a responsible agent.
check and end up with a paper replete with
correctly-spelled malapropisms, or blindly follow
GPS navigation systems and end up at dead-
(Learn More. Devin Wenig, CEO of eBay, Dr. David Hanson, CEO
ends or road closures – to give two rather innocu- of Hanson Robotics, and Paul Daugherty, Chief Technology
and Innovation Officer of Accenture, talk with Jessi Hempel of
ous examples.
WIRED about the power of Artificial Intelligence.)
As AI is integrated into high-
stakes environments like hos-
pitals and financial systems, we
must remember that just be-
cause the technology is termed
“intelligent,” that is not a license
to suspend human cognition,
judgement or responsibility.
Although his dire predictions about
AI’s existential threat to humanity
may be overstated, Elon Musk is right
to advocate that stakeholders think
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