Expert: AI, Algorithms Should Come with a Measure of Caution

Kartik Hosanagar was ready to turn his home into one of the future. He was looking forward to connecting his thermostat, television, light bulbs and other Internet-enabled smart devices and control all of them with a phone, tablet or just his voice. Hosanagar, a technology and digital business professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, had everything hooked up and the new arrangement went fine for several months -- until one day his television started turning itself on and off. It turned out that a friend who had helped Hosanagar set up his smart home still had access to his home and was inadvertently controlling his TV from his home. "Sometime during the setup, we switched to his phone and used the TV app to set it up," Hosanagar said.