Joi Ito is the director of the MIT Media Lab, a research laboratory devoted to the integration of technology, art and design. This “extended intelligence,” or E.I., will likely become the dominant form of A.I. Unless we embed ethical and moral grounding, technology meant to advance our well-being could, in fact, end up amplifying the worst aspects of our society. Well-intentioned uses of developing technologies can go wrong. to develop without thoughtfully managing how it integrates with, and affects, society, it could be used to amplify dangerous biases and entities.

Source: New York Times December 05, 2016 08:21 UTC