Why Artificial Intelligence is scaring everyone

By their own admission, Jack Ma is uncomfortable with Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Elon Musk is scared. But why? Contrary to popular perception AI is old. To be precise it's 51-years old, widely acknowledged to have been born at a conference at Dartmouth College in 1956. That conference was attended by a diverse group of people. Three of them presented the Logic Theorist, the world's first true artificial intelligence programme. Two of them were Allen Newell and Herbert Simon.