Blanket security: How AI is remaking risk management

For almost a century, movies and literature have explored the possibility of technology beginning to think for itself--often with a dystopian spin. Consider that today, artificial intelligence is known far and wide as AI--which also happens to be the title of the 2001 Steven Spielberg drama (based on a 1969 short story) where indeed, machines inherit the world from their human creators. And just months ago, at least two billionaire visionaries, Tesla Founder Elon Musk and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban, spoke out about the potential evils. Musk has called AI "our biggest existential threat" while Cuban, for his own part, used much stronger language to express his anxiety. Fears of the future are one thing; the present reality, however, represents quite another.