The Coming Debate Over A.I. and Privacy - Dice Insights

At its annual Worldwide Developers Conference (WWDC) in San Francisco this week, Apple suggested that it was more than willing to compete toe-to-toe against Google, Amazon, and Microsoft in the artificial intelligence (A.I.) arena. As those rivals build increasingly sophisticated bots that can respond to users' natural-language commands, Apple has opened its own digital assistant, Siri, to third-party developers. If things pan out as the company expects, Siri will rapidly add more functionality, essentially becoming a butler for a growing collection of tasks. And that's just the first of what will surely be many A.I.-related initiatives on Apple's part. But how can Apple reconcile its need for personal data--the fuel of an effective A.I. platform--with its rigorous user privacy stance?