AI vs. Humans: Conflict or Collaboration?

AI that can tell pre-cancerous growths from harmless moles - great. As a technology, AI is unprecedented, powerful and deeply pervasive: from voice recognition to self-driving cars to medical diagnosis, it is swiftly weaving its way into our lives at work, home, and everywhere in between. Yet most of us know very little about it. It's easy to say that fear of the unknown is fruitless, but how can we understand and leverage AI to create the best possible society without succumbing to fear, doomsaying, or prophecies of a fate worse than war? In 2016, the news broke that US risk assessment algorithms - used by courtrooms throughout the country to decide the fates and freedoms of those on trial - are racially biased, frequently sentencing Caucasians more leniently than African Americans despite no difference in the type of crime committed.