When AI goes rogue: Moral debates could kill the hype - SiliconANGLE

Venture capitalists lavished $10.8 billion on artificial intelligence and machine learning technology companies in 2017, according to PitchBook Data Inc. They've placed major bets that AI innovation can't go far or fast enough to meet demand. But controversial use cases -- like when algorithms decide the fate of the criminally tried -- and the danger of coded-in bias suggest it's gone too far already without regulatory oversight. "This technology's coming at us so fast, we don't have all the policies figured out," said Beena Ammanath (pictured), global vice president of big data, artificial intelligence and new tech innovation at Hewlett Packard Enterprise Co. While consumer, business and government users embrace AI software that makes their jobs and lives simpler, they are simultaneously tasked with building the guardrails around the tech.