AI Can Help Create a Better World--If We Build it Right

Society is rife with fears about the future of AI. For some, like Richard Branson and Ray Dalio, it's AI's exacerbation of the wealth gap and the looming social crisis it could bring about. My worry for AI, however, is that we are vilifying a technology that may in fact be our single greatest resource for creating a just world--if we build it right. While there do exist serious ethical conundrums and uncertainties regarding the potential for artificial superintelligence, at the moment, what we are facing on Earth is mostly a complex assemblage of human problems. It is true that automation is contributing to the increasing inequality within most countries, with the income gap widening between each country's educated middle and upper classes and their less-educated lower classes.