Gov. Ralph Northam on Thursday announced that Zasti, Inc., an artificial intelligence (AI) technology company for the healthcare industry, will invest $5.9 million to establish its U.S. headquarters and operations in Loudoun County. The company will utilize the facility to develop and embed ZASTI AI platforms in diagnostic devices and enterprise IT systems to ensure product quality, supply chain security, and affordability. Virginia successfully competed with Maryland for the project, which will create 60 new jobs. "Virginia continues to push new boundaries in artificial intelligence, and we are excited to welcome a global company that is advancing both the technology and healthcare industries with its innovative platform," Northam said in a news release. "Our Commonwealth has the second-highest concentration of technology workers in the country, and Zasti's Loudoun County operation will tap into the deep well of talent in the region to build on its mission of using artificial intelligence to address our most pressing challenges."

Fully-fledged artificial intelligence would do most of this automatically, and then take the next critical step of using that information to autonomously plan and execute a future action based on the probability that, taking into account the infinite number of variables in an uncontrolled environment, Decision A versus Decision B would be produce the most positive outcome without any avoidable harm.