How AI and Venture Could Change The World (Whether We Like It Or Not)

As venture capital gets drawn to a new tech trend, I'll end up being drawn to digging into it as a matter of principle, and inevitably new business intel. It's an interesting intersection - the inverse canary in a coal mine - not that I am able to write about said clients here, but they always turn up just as an industry is about to explode. It happened with the Internet of Things (for better or for worse), with the post CES 2015 (and CES 2016) deluge flooding both the media and my inbox, and now the machine learning and artificial intelligence ones have begun to pop up before, during and after CES 2017. Basically, when technology and venture capital intersect, it creates a forward movement in which the funding pushes the technology to advance, which funds the development of new and even more interesting things, which gets more capital into the ecosystem. In the case of AI, there're so many ramifications it's almost ridiculous - both the potential positive outcomes of its existence and a growing fear of what its existence could mean for the world at large.