This month, we ask if AI can make humans better. Joining the discussion this time are: Joe Daly (AIhub and University of Bristol), Tom Dietterich (Oregon State University), Sabine Hauert (University of Bristol), Sarit Kraus (Bar-Ilan University), Michael Littman (Brown University), Lucy Smith (AIhub) and Oskar von Stryk (Technische Universität Darmstadt). Joe Daly: I recently saw this Twitter thread, about how AI has made human players better at the game of Go, then this article about the game of bridge, and more generally about AI's influence on us. People were actually discussing how AI can make us better at stuff, and how we can learn things from AI. What are people's thoughts on that?

Even as we read about the first layoffs blamed at least in part on automation, there is still cause for optimism. While easily automated jobs may fall by the wayside, it's important to remember that new jobs managing and leveraging artificial intelligence (AI) technology are being created. Titles like edge computing release manager, edge stream researcher and AI analytics executive did not exist until very recently. Earlier this year, I hired a vice president of AI and robotic process automation. How many of us thought even ten years ago that a role like this would be so central for business software development?

We've read the stories about how artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning are transforming the way companies approach marketing. But what if the true game-changer in consumer insights will be driven by our own brainwaves? Although it may sound like science fiction, the technology has been around for several years, and some companies are finding ways to use brain data to drive product development and market research. In fact, neuromarketing--which uses brain research to reveal a consumer's subconscious decision-making processes--has been in use for more than a decade. In 2009, PepsiCo's Cheetos used EEGs from the brain to measure consumer response to a "prank" type ad, and learned its focus group wasn't quite forthcoming with its written responses.

Dell Technologies chairman and CEO said he firmly believes that Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be more helpful than harmful to humans. "In the future, it must be human plus machine, not machine minus human," Michael Dell told Xinhua in a recent interview during his visit to Beijing. Over the past years, AI has increasingly become a hot topic globally. Some people, however, view the evolution of AI as a risk that could cut jobs dramatically, or even bring devastation to human civilization. Dell believes there is no need to fear the coming AI revolution, saying "We should not be afraid of new tools."