AI and robotics are going to shape our future. Next there are 10 issues that professionals and researchers need to address in order to desing intelligent systems that help humanity. The flow of misinformation together with our natural inability of perceiving reality based on evidence (a phenomenon called confirmation bias) is a threat to having an informed democracy. Russian hackers influencing the US elections, Brexit campaign and Catalonia crisis are examples of how social media can massively spread misinformation and fake news. It is an open question how institutions are going to address this threat. The scientific revolution in the 18th century and the industrial revolution in the 19th marked a complete change in society.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is playing an increasingly influential role in the modern world, powering more of the technology that impacts people's daily lives. For digital marketers, it allows for more sophisticated online advertising, content creation, translations, email campaigns, web design and conversion optimization. Outside the marketing industry, AI underpins some of the tools and sites that people use every day. It is behind the personal virtual assistants in the latest iPhone, Google Home, and Amazon Echo. It is used to recommend what films you watch on Netflix or what songs you listen to on Spotify, steers conversations you have with your favorite retailers, and powers self-driving cars and trucks that are set to become commonplace on roads around the world.

Early last year, a Microsoft research project dubbed DeepCoder announced that it had made progress creating AI that could write its own programs. Such a feat has long captured the imagination of technology optimists and pessimists alike, who might consider software that creates its own software as the next paradigm in technology – or perhaps the direct route to building the evil Skynet. As with most machine learning or deep learning approaches that make up the bulk of today's AI, DeepCoder was creating code that it based on large numbers of examples of existing code that researchers used to train the system. The result: software that ended up assembling bits of human-created programs, a feat Wired Magazine referred to as'looting other software.' And yet, in spite of DeepCoder's PR faux pas, the idea of software smart enough to create its own applications remains an area of active research, as well as an exciting prospect for the digital world at large.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being used both to monitor and prevent crimes in many countries. AI is used in such areas as bomb detection and deactivation, surveillance, prediction, social media scanning and interviewing suspects. However, for all the hype and hoopla around AI, there is scope for growth of its role in crime management. Currently, a few issues are proving problematic. AI is not uniformly engaged across countries in crime management. There is fierce debate on the ethical boundaries of AI, compelling law enforcement authorities to tread carefully.

Artificial intelligence is revolutionizing our world in many unimaginable ways. At the verge of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, humanity is currently witnessing the first steps made by machines in reinventing the world we live in. And while we keep debating about the potential drawbacks and benefits of substituting humans with intelligent, self-learning machines, there's one area where AI's positive impact will definitely improve the quality of our lives: the health care industry. Machine learning algorithms can process unimaginable amounts of info in the blink of an eye. And they can be much more precise than humans in spotting even the smallest detail in medical imaging reports such as mammograms and CT scans.