Why artificial intelligence may be the next big privacy trend

After years of trying to wrap our heads around "big data," machine learning may now be the heir apparent to big data in the world of privacy buzzwords. Wednesday's report repeatedly notes that big data is the enabler of artificial intelligence and that data provides the "raw material" for new algorithmic developments and approaches to machine learning. Of course, machine learning is only a subset of what constitutes AI, which is also distinct from automation, deep learning, and robotics. Despite the mess of terminology, it is clear that industry is racing to invest in the whole bucket of technologies. If the phenomenon of big data encouraged nearly every company to view itself as a data company, fueling the privacy profession, AI looks to have a similar trajectory for influencing how organizations do business.