Artificial Intelligence (AI) has become one of the hottest trends in 2017. Some people see it as the wave of the future, some people dismiss it as a gimmick. I spoke with Dan Ariely to get his thoughts on how AI is going to affect decision making. There are many ways to apply artificial intelligence. There is a version of artificial intelligence that basically takes what we do and amplifies it to a greater extent.

Behavioral economics is an exciting skeleton on which to build human systems such as technology and communities. One of the leading minds in behavioral economics is Dan Ariely, New York Times best-selling author of Predictably Irrational, The Upside Of Irrationality, and frequent TED speaker. I recently interviewed Dan for my Forbes column to explore how behavioral economics is playing a role in technology, data, artificial intelligence, and preventing online abuse. Predictably, his insight was irrationally interesting. OK, that was a stretch.