Opinion

Artificial intelligence has the power to change the world -- and it, as it advances from useful to essential, then from essential to mandatory and finally from mandatory to directive. "Machines will tell us what to do," warns entrepreneur and author Bill Bishop. Gillian K. Hadfield, the director of the Schwartz Reisman Institute for Technology and Society, agrees AI will present new problems but is confident society will be bold and come up with new ideas for regulating AI. To paraphrase Tolstoy, all nice, helpful robots are alike, but all dangerous robots are dangerous in their own unique way. In this debate, I will show that we need to fear the dangerous robots (AIs), not by acting like paranoid Luddites, but to ensure we fear AIs enough to pay attention to potential threats, and to take proactive steps to mitigate them.