Optimizing Machines Is Perilous. Consider 'Creatively Adequate' AI.

The breaking ensues whenever AI encounters ambiguity or volatility. And in our hazy, unstable world, that's all the time: Either the data can be interpreted another way or it's obsolesced by new events. At which point, AI finds itself looking at life through errant eyes, seeing left as right or now as yesterday. Yet because AI lacks self-awareness, it doesn't realize that its worldview has cracked. So, on it whirs, unwittingly transmitting the fracture to all the things plugged into it.