Why You Don't Need To Worry About AI

Any great sci-fi movie has artificial intelligence (AI), but to be entertaining, a movie needs drama. So in the real world, advances in AI are less about robot overlords and more about "Siri, take me home." Below, a few members of Forbes Technology Council offer their insights on why we should all stop worrying about AI, and possibly even embrace it as the future. Pop culture always portrays AI as an attempt to reproduce human consciousness - computers becoming self-aware and then turning on their human masters. In practice, there are very few groups in academia or industry that are trying to address machine consciousness.