I'm an AI researcher, and here is what scares me about AI

AI is being increasingly used to make important decisions. Many AI experts (including Jeff Dean, head of AI at Google, and Andrew Ng, founder of Coursera and deeplearning.ai) I am an AI researcher, and I'm worried about some of the societal impacts that we're already seeing. At the end, I'll briefly share some positive ways that we can try to address these. Before we dive in, I need to clarify one point that is important to understand: algorithms (and the complex systems they are a part of) can make mistakes. These mistakes come from a variety of sources: bugs in the code, inaccurate or biased data, approximations we have to make (e.g.