Obama: Don't let AI impoverish American citizens

Scott Huffman, leader of Google Assistant engineering, is working on a high-profile example of practical AI. Artificial intelligence could be a huge economic boon, but not if its benefits help only the highest-skilled workers, whose jobs computers can't replace, President Barack Obama believes. With AI research rapidly becoming AI products from Google, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and other companies, the technology is no longer an academic curiosity. Obama expects great things of AI as it spreads to new industries, he said in an interview with Wired magazine published Wednesday. But his optimism was guarded.