Governments have a crucial role in ensuring artificial intelligence benefits everyone

Artificial intelligence is rapidly moving out of the laboratory and into our daily lives. It has already made possible many things we now take for granted, including speech recognition, web searches, and in-car navigation systems. Soon, the incredible advances in software and the hardware needed to process all of the data that's being generated will turn many other things that used to seem like science fiction into reality. The impact on society is--and will be--immense, so it's important that public policy keeps pace with these developments. There is no commonly accepted definition for artificial intelligence, but at Intel, we see it as a computerized system that performs tasks which traditionally have been associated with people.