Artificial Intelligence: The Miracle and the Menace - Diplomatic Courier

Artificial Intelligence (AI) may well be the most powerful technology of the 21st century, helping to solve humanity's most complex unsolved problems: environmental, social, and more. Yet sceptics believe that AI's risks are as large as its potential benefits. How can they be avoided? And why isn't the most powerful technology being used more widely today to solve the world's greatest "wicked" problems? Great technological advances are often a double-edged sword.