Why Artificial Intelligence Researchers Should Be More Paranoid

Life has gotten more convenient since 2012, when breakthroughs in machine learning triggered the ongoing frenzy of investment in artificial intelligence. Speech recognition works most of the time, for example, and you can unlock the new iPhone with your face. People with the skills to build things such systems have reaped great benefits--they've become the most prized of tech workers. But a new report on the downsides of progress in AI warns they need to pay more attention to the heavy moral burdens created by their work. It calls for urgent and active discussion of how AI technology could be misused.