Confessions of an Artificial Intelligence (AI) Optimist An Interview with MIT's Andrew McAfee

In this interview with BCG, McAfee focuses on "machine," the rise of artificial intelligence. McAfee is a big booster of most things digital, but he's also a realist. He cautions, for example, that an AI engine is only as good as the data fed into it. Machines are still a long way from mastering many human tasks, and the biggest impediment to machine learning and other AI tools may be the imagination of business leaders. But he's not worried about tech giants cornering the AI market, and he's relatively sanguine about an automated economy in which many forms of work have disappeared.