Why we're failing to regulate the most powerful tech we've ever faced

Alphabet CEO Sundar Pichai said artificial intelligence is "more profound than fire or electricity." Author and historian Yuval Noah Harari said, "If you have enough data about me, enough computing power and biological knowledge, you can hack my body, my brain, my life, and you can understand me better than I understand myself." And a recent Brookings Institution report prophesied that the country or region leading in AI in 2030 will rule the planet until at least 2100. It's clear the AI revolution will impact society drastically, both for good and bad. Recently, using natural-language processing and machine-learning techniques, Canadian company BluDot sifted through global news reports, airline data, and reports of animal disease outbreaks to issue an alert about the current Coronavirus outbreak, days ahead of official organizations such as the World Health Organization.