We are delighted to feature this guest post from Raphael Bres, Chief Product Officer at Tradeshift. From the fiction of'WOPR' in the 1980s film "War Games" to the terrifyingly real almost-apocalypse of 1983's Soviet nuclear false alarm incident, humanity has plenty of reasons to be fearful of the consequences of putting computers in charge. Perhaps that explains our wariness of ceding control to artificial intelligence (AI) in a host of much more run-of-the-mill processes. But this reluctance to hand over the keys -- of a self-driving car, a business or even missile silo -- betrays a fundamental misunderstanding of how AI is designed to work. Too often AI is presented as it is in dystopian fiction, as an overlord, when it's actually more like a workhorse, and a highly effective one.