TechWell Artificial Intelligence Needs Best Practices Page 1

Many predict artificial intelligence (AI) will someday cure cancer, clean up our environment, drastically improve our cities, and send us to Mars, among a host of other accomplishments. However, with the potential benefits that inspire oohs and aahs also comes risk. Before there was Siri, there was HAL. And in the epic science fiction movie "2001: A Space Odyssey," when the poor astronaut Dave Bowman asks the supercomputer HAL 9000 to let him back inside the spacecraft, HAL merely responds, "I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that." Granted, this was a movie--albeit a brilliant one--but there are still real life concerns about what exactly are artificial intelligence best practices and a need for guidelines.