If Hollywood is to be believed, the development of superintelligent artificial intelligence will spell the end of civilization as we know it and spark an unwinnable war between man and machine. It doesn't make for nearly as exciting entertainment, but AI also offers tremendous upside, from the potential to deliver customized tutelage to everyone, to improving disease diagnosis and treatment, to eradicating poverty. Although it is such beneficial outcomes that AI researchers are focused on, the dystopian vision portrayed in so much science fiction is also a real possibility. At the recent Singularity University New Zealand Summit we talked with Neil Jacobstein, the former president and current chair of the Artificial Intelligence and Robotics Track at SU, about how the outcomes feared by so many can be avoided.
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