Apocalyptic Visions of AI are Diverting Attention from Policy Issues - Disruption

After decades of unfulfilled promises artificial intelligence (AI) has started to deliver. Not hindered by rules and regulations intelligent machines are now exceeding humans in areas such as image recognition. With some of us this raises worries about killer robots. Consciously or subconsciously the tech industry is feeding these apocalyptic visions in order to divert attention from real issues surrounding AI. Prominent science and technology luminaries such as Bill Gates and Elon Musk have warned several times that self-aware, super intelligent artificial systems will advance to a point at which they could become a threat to human existence.