How can AI be made more secure and trustworthy? - Help Net Security

While we're still debating whether and how long it will take to reach singularity and superintelligence, artificial intelligence is playing an increasingly important role in our everyday lives. Artificial intelligence – most commonly machine learning (ML) – is the process of training algorithms using data, instead of explicitly programming them. Such algorithms are already being used in applications ranging from HR to finance and transport to medicine, and in use cases almost too numerous to mention. The benefits of machine learning are obvious: they enable faster analysis of vastly more data than any human or even groups of humans are capable of. Many ML applications that can surpass human capabilities already exist, such as those designed to play Go and Chess, or detect fraudulent insurance claims.