10 ways AI is a force for good

Most of the focus has been on economic growth (like China's ambition for a $150bn industry). But there has also been a flurry of interest in AI for good; a proliferation of events, organisations being set up (like AINow, OpenAI and AI4ALL in the US and the Ada Lovelace Institute or ElementAI's new London office focusing on AI for good, here in the UK). Some are real and some may turn out to be little more than hot air, or algorithmic greenwash. So what can we hope for? Through the half century history of AI, the direction of research and funding has been dominated by the military and intelligence.