The Promise – and Peril – of AI

The promise is clear – AI can be a powerful tool to automate things that previously could not be automated.

The peril is not so clear. Underneath the hype, the fact is that AI often gets it wrong. Sometimes, horribly so. Cars crashing. Stock trades malfunctioning. History being rewritten.

The key will be, how can AI be vetted – how can it be grounded to concrete reality?