App CEO offers 'core question' about AI: What principles are we giving it to keep it safe for humanity?

AI technology is quickly creeping into every industry, prompting new questions about whether online content comes from a human or a computer. Hallow app CEO and co-creator Alex Jones says that while artificial intelligence (AI) can be used for both evil and good, there is one central question people must ask when it comes to emerging technologies. Jones said that a lot of friends and "fellow startup folks" who are working in AI are building "really mind-blowing tools that can do a lot of different things." AI is considered by many as one of the "scarier technologies," which can be used for "tremendous, tremendous evil," said Jones, naming the the internet's "massive proliferation of pornography" as just one example. AI GIVES GOOGLE POWER TO'DICTATE' THE NEWS PEOPLE SEE, WHAT THEY BUY, HOW THEY VOTE, ATTORNEY CLAIMS Technology can also be used for good, he continued, including advances in medical care and of connecting long-lost loved ones by acting as a vehicle "to allow God to reach into people's lives."