Could AI go rogue? Debating the obstacles for enterprise machine intelligence - SiliconANGLE

Fei-Fei Li is a world-renowned expert in the field of artificial intelligence, having risen to become head of Stanford University's AI Lab and the chief scientist for AI at Google Cloud. But when Google LLC began an internal debate last year over how to publicly discuss its AI contract with the U.S. Department of Defense, Li's decision to write a confidential memo on the issue last September might be the second-worst moment in her corporate career. The worst was when it all became public. "Avoid at ALL COSTS any mention or implication of AI," Li wrote to her colleagues. "This is red meat to the media to find all ways to damage Google."