Did AI write this article?Depositphotos enhanced by CogWorld Imagine how productive Woodward and Bernstein might have been if only they had robots to write their articles for the Washington Post. With a little A.I. on their side, they might have taken down Nixon in days instead of years. "A lot of people don't realize this, but a lot of the news stories you read now are increasingly written by artificial intelligence," said Stephen Ibaraki, social entrepreneur, futurist and chair at REDDS Capital in an interview for my upcoming book, Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: A Modern Primer on A.I. for the Modern Business, co-authored by Michael Ashley. "You get these news releases about things that are happening in sports, for example, or in business. But people are not creating these pieces anymore. Lots of us are spending hours on our mobile phones reading updates about events and news flashes never realizing it's A.I. that's generating this stuff now."

Did AI write this article?Depositphotos enhanced by CogWorld Imagine how productive Woodward and Bernstein might have been if only they had robots to write their articles for the The Washington Post. With a little A.I. on their side, they might have taken down Nixon in days instead of years. "A lot of people don't realize this, but a lot of the news stories you read now are increasingly written by artificial intelligence," said Stephen Ibaraki, social entrepreneur, futurist and chair at REDDS Capital in an interview for my upcoming book, Uber Yourself Before You Get Kodaked: A Modern Primer on A.I. for the Modern Business, co-authored by Michael Ashley. "You get these news releases about things that are happening in sports, for example, or in business. But people are not creating these pieces anymore. Lots of us are spending hours on our mobile phones reading updates about events and news flashes never realizing it's A.I. that's generating this stuff now."

I attended the first and largest of its kind, UN ITU XPRIZE Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Good Global Summit held 7-9 June 2017 in Geneva touching 300 plus million, influencing 1 billion, and meaningfully impacting 7.2 billion via more than 30 global media, social media, and television crews, including a documentary crew. If you have not done so already you want to get over to the summit website and view the rich collection of content there created by the top leaders and minds in AI, civil society, 21 UN organizations, governments, industry, academia, and media. Just a few of the notable speakers and participants were: Peter Norvig head of research at Google, Peter Lee Corporate Vice President of Microsoft AI and Research, Margaret Chan Director General of the World Health Organization (WHO), Pedro Domingos Professor of Computer Science and Engineering at the University of Washington, Jü rgen Schmidhuber, Scientific Director, Swiss AI Lab, IDSIA; Professor of AI, USI & SUPSI, Switzerland; President of NNAISENSE, Andy Chen Board Chair at IEEE Computer Society, and Vicki Hanson, President of ACM, and Distinguished Professor of Computing at the Rochester Institute of Technology. The Summit sought to speed the development of, and access to, AI solutions to address global challenges ranging from poverty, hunger, health and education to equality and environmental sustainability. In my last article, I challenged everyone including all in the business world to deliberately embrace AI in a way that results in good outcomes.

It is hard to find any technology article these days that does not have some reference to artificial intelligence (AI). While one writer touts the amazing powers of AI for good, others are equally passionate with warnings of its potential to destroy the world. It is not often that one topic creates such polarized opinions from equally learned and visionary people. So what is a business leader to do when faced with the inevitable decisions about adopting AI in their enterprise? Like every major innovation, AI can be used for evil as well as for good. But for most businesses, bringing in AI based tools will not be a choice but a necessity.