The emerging field of artificial intelligence (AI) risks provoking a public backlash as it increasingly falls into private hands, threatens people’s jobs, and operates without effective oversight or regulatory control, leading experts in the technology warn. Researchers told the Guardian that:The benefits of AI might be lost to a GM-style backlash. It is crucial that they are both safe and fair.”Many modern AIs learn to make decisions by being trained on massive datasets. Subbarao Kambhampati, president of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, said that although technology often benefited society, it did not always do so equitably. Walport, who oversees almost all public funding of UK science research, is cautious about regulating AI for fear of hampering research.

Source: The Guardian November 01, 2017 10:30 UTC