We see a lot of people touting artificial intelligence (AI) as the wave of the future. On Monday there was a great example of the wonders of AI. Machines are programmed to sell stocks at certain levels, and they do what they are told. Then the cascading effect goes throughout the world. So what if a human forgets to program the machines to stop selling? What could go wrong? When I think of AI, I think of self-driving cars, which are only as good as the humans programming their cameras and computers. Let’s say an autonomous car was going down the road and came to black ice that it didn’t recognize and yelled at the person in the back seat (who was drinking a beer, reading a book and had never learned to drive) and the car took over. What could go wrong? I also think of how cars with AI could not have handled the changing conditions of Hurricane Harvey. There are a lot of examples of AI cascading through society today with negative consequences. It has to be AI,...(Read Full Post)