Companies embrace AI, but execs cite challenges on alignment, ethics

Corporate America is increasingly using AI, and executives anticipate that they will use it even more in the years ahead. But they also have significant concerns, new research fromknowledge marketplace GLG finds. Sixty percent of executives surveyed do not feel that their organizations are fully aligned on how they should develop and use AI. And while more than 70 percent of executives say that their companies have adopted AI in the last three years, only a quarter say that they have taken steps to prevent bias that can result from AI. Artificial intelligence has sparked debates on everything from data privacy to bots taking jobs from humans to algorithms that perpetuate racial and gender bias. These issues have been widely reported, yet respondents in the survey reported that their companies have not taken steps to deal with them.