Olaf Groth, F95, F97, a professor at Hult International Business School and CEO of the Cambrian Group, co-authored the new book Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines. Tufts Now spoke with him about technology's dual nature and governing artificial intelligence. Olaf Groth: King Solomon was a biblical figure known for making very intelligent decisions and getting to great wealth, but then also making problematic decisions and losing his wealth and his country, or his son's country, as it were. We're saying that we ought to be wise about the kinds of problems that we could be generating in this new data-driven economy. We do not want to end up like Solomon, but rather exercise some foresight so that we don't make the same mistakes.

It's hard to avoid the prominence of AI in our lives, and there is a plethora of predictions about how it will influence our future. In their new book Solomon's Code: Humanity in a World of Thinking Machines, co-authors Olaf Groth, Professor of Strategy, Innovation and Economics at HULT International Business School and CEO of advisory network Cambrian.ai, I caught up with the authors about how the continued integration between technology and humans, and their call for a "Digital Magna Carta," a broadly-accepted charter developed by a multi-stakeholder congress that would help guide the development of advanced technologies to harness their power for the benefit of all humanity. Lisa Kay Solomon: Your new book, Solomon's Code, explores artificial intelligence and its broader human, ethical, and societal implications that all leaders need to consider. AI is a technology that's been in development for decades.

This article was originally published by BusinessBecause on October 18th 2017, Hult Reviews The Future Of Artificial Intelligence With TEDx Talks. Olaf Groth, digital expert and professor at Hult International Business School, wants a new, digital Magna Carta to help humans harness the potential of AI. Right now, in China, Communist party officials are working with big data analytics and artificial intelligence (AI) experts to launch a new, multi-billion-dollar tool to assign a'Trust Rating' to each of China's citizens. Designed to clamp down on corruption, the plan is to generate a social credit score for each citizen based on how trustworthy they are. Automatically, through AI technology, citizens with good scores will benefit; citizens with bad scores could face punishments, blacklisting, and restrictions.