The moral responsibility of A.I.

Having established that we are light years away from full artificial intelligence, and that true A.I. is an inevitable part of the present and future -- now what? What should we concern ourselves with next? Like any transformative technology, A.I. carries risks and presents challenges along several dimensions, with the most complex and urgent issue being its liability and accountability. While science fiction has focused on the existential threat of A.I. to humans, researchers at Google's parent company, Alphabet, and those from Amazon, Facebook, IBM, and Microsoft are teaming up to focus on the ethical challenges that A.I. will bring. People with knowledge on A.I. are no longer worried about the kind of scenarios where machines take over the world in doomsday fashion.