I had the honour in early December to participate in an Interzone/Politik Video production with AI leaders: Danny Lange, Chief Data Scientist (CDS), Unity 3D, former CDS of Amazon, and Uber, Beena Ammanath, Executive Director of Deloitte's AI Institute Artificial Intelligence, hosted by John Koetsier where we explored a number of questions about how AI is leading to the fundamental reengineering of all aspects of our human experience, how we as a species interact with AI, and the implications of advancing our world without serious reflection on the type of world we want to build for future civilizations. The conversation we had allowed us to share our views, experiences, concerns and hopes for the New Year for a global society to think more deeply about the future world we want to create - together where AI is used for more good than harm. We have come together to fight Covid-19 and AI was a key enabler to bring to market vaccines, in unprecedented clinical trial R&D timeframes, to eradicate this virus, and help us get back to a more interactive global community where we can freely travel, visit our favourite restaurants and shop with more access in our local retailer stores. This is an excellent example of AI being used for good. However, much of AI in large global data sets are full of inequalities, incumbencies and biases of the innovators designing AI which have a direct impact on how the technology guides human information, perception and action.

Superintelligence: What happens in a world with AI that is hundreds or thousands of times smarter than humans? In this episode, we chat with research scientist Roman Yampolskiy. He's a professor at the University of Louisville, and his most recent book is Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach. Subscribe wherever you find podcasts: If you listen to podcasts, here's where you can subscribe to future39 and here more interviews like this on the future. What happens in a world with AI that's hundreds or thousands of times smarter than we are? He's a professor at the University of Louisville, and his most recent book is Artificial Superintelligence: A Futuristic Approach. John Koetsier: Thank you so much for coming on the show. You have an amazing background there, I love it.

What will work look like when everything is digitally transformed, artificial intelligence is optimally deployed and robots are embedded in every aspect of our economy? That's hard to know, but one company that's focused on making work work better, and helping businesses digitally transform, is Box. Box, which went public in 2015, still acts very much like a Silicon Valley startup. Except, of course, grown up, with partnerships with Google and IBM and just about any other important company you can think of. Elements of this image furnished by NASA.