The true dangers of AI are closer than we think

William Isaac is a senior research scientist on the ethics and society team at DeepMind, an AI startup that Google acquired in 2014. I asked him about the current and potential challenges facing AI development--as well as the solutions. A: I want to shift the question. The threats overlap, whether it's predictive policing and risk assessment in the near term, or more scaled and advanced systems in the longer term. Many of these issues also have a basis in history. So potential risks and ways to approach them are not as abstract as we think.