Should You Leave Grandma With The Robot?

Everyday, we are inching closer to some kind of artificial intelligence. Advances in big data, machine learning and robotics are all poised to give us a world in which computers are effectively intelligent in terms of how we deal with them. Should you be scared by this proposition? Based on a lecture I just attended, my answer is: "absolutely, but not in the usual'robot overlords' kind of way." Instead, the real fear should be about getting human beings wrong, not getting AI right. The lecture I attended was given by Rana el Kaliouby.