Cars with built-in artificial intelligence (AI) systems that alert drivers or slow down when they are getting drowsy or distracted will start being rolled out from 2022. Engineering firm Bosch is developing an'interior monitoring system' which uses cameras built into a car's steering wheel and rear-view mirror to watch motorists. The AI will also keep an eye on passengers, warning of unfastened seat-belts and adjusting safety devices like airbags and belts to match how they sit. Past research has estimated that around one in ten car accidents are caused by either drivers being distracted or feeling drowsy. 'If the car knows what its driver and occupants are doing, driving will become safer and more convenient,' said Bosch board member Harald Kroeger.

The Trillium Automobile Dealers Association recently hosted its annual Innovation Series conferences for auto dealers, managers, auto students, suppliers and marketing experts. A representative from Microsoft spoke about how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the auto industry and suggested it could be one of the world's most fundamental pieces of technology in the years ahead. I would agree with that assessment. Already AI has found many useful applications in automobiles, including driving features, cloud services, auto manufacturing and insurance, and driver monitoring. Vehicles today have on-board sensors that alert drivers to potentially dangerous situations.

The Trillium Automobile Dealers Association recently hosted its annual Innovation Series conferences for auto dealers, managers, auto students, suppliers and marketing experts. A representative from Microsoft spoke about how artificial intelligence (AI) is affecting the auto industry and suggested it could be one of the world's most fundamental pieces of technology in the years ahead. I would agree with that assessment. Already AI has found many useful applications in automobiles, including driving features, cloud services, auto manufacturing and insurance, and driver monitoring. Vehicles today have on-board sensors that alert drivers to potentially dangerous situations.

Just how worried should we be about killer robots? To go by the opinions of a highly regarded group of scholars, including Stephen Hawking, Max Tegmark, Franz Wilczek, and Stuart Russell, we should be wary of the prospect of artificial intelligence rebelling against its makers. "One can imagine (AI) outsmarting financial markets, out-inventing human researchers, out-manipulating human leaders, and developing weapons we cannot even understand," Hawking wrote in a 2014 article for The Independent. "Whereas the short-term impact of AI depends on who controls it, the long-term impact depends on whether it can be controlled at all." The fear that our irresponsible creations might bring about the end of humanity is a common one.