The Interplay Between Artificial Intelligence and Uncertainty

In this first article, we highlight how intelligence and rationality are tightly coupled with the uncertainty present in the world. We also discuss how uncertainty plays a critical role in designing beneficial general-purpose artificial intelligence (AI), as described by the work of Stuart Russel and Peter Norvig on Modern AI [1][2]. Human intelligence, both social and individual, is what has been driving advances achieved by the human civilization. Having access to even greater intelligence in the form of machine artificial intelligence (AI) can potentially lead to even further advances, and will help us solve major problems such as eliminating poverty and disease, solving open scientific and mathematical problems, and offering personal assistance targeting billions of people worldwide. This is subject of course to the finite resources of land and raw material available on earth.