Turning AI, deep learning and robots from children into responsible citizens

If there is one thing about artificial intelligence (AI) most people agree on it's the fact that AI and the way in which its many'forms' are leveraged, whether it's in a context of cobots, sentiment analysis applications, autonomous decision-making in smart buildings, intelligence at the edge of IoT (Internet of Things) or any other solution, should serve human, business and societal goals one way or the other. That is of course easier said than done, it is an area of AI research for a reason. There are fears, there are different views on what societies need, there are several technologies which can be used by all industries and people (regardless of activities), there is the question about future applications enabled by rapidly evolving'forms' of AI such as deep learning, there is the aspect of regulation as lawmakers start looking at AI, there are discussions about what type of goals are ethical and there are ample pioneers, researchers and thinkers looking at machine ethics and computational ethics or even ethics towards robots. One of them is Nell Watson, a speaker at the AI for business event. Nell is, among others, an adjunct within the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics track of the Singularity University where she mainly lectures on machine intelligence, the relationship between people and robots and the future of society.