Top 5 Drivers of Business Disruption in 2017 - #1 Artificial Intelligence - Disruption

In the first of our series exploring the top 5 drivers of business disruption in 2017, we focus on the rise of Artificial Intelligence in our daily lives. High profile figures including Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk insisted that AI should be carefully contained and controlled, whilst Ray Kurzweil stated that we can, 'protect ourselves against rogue AI' by creating safeguards. Despite the negative press, the last 12 months has seen a huge increase in investment in AI. Since 2013, funding has tripled. This relentless expansion led tech giants Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Amazon and IBM to create a partnership at the end of the year, supposedly to hash out ethical concerns.