ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
ABSTRACT
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the key technology in many of today's novel applications, ranging from banking systems that detect attempted credit card fraud, to telephone systems that understand speech, to software systems that notice when you're having problems and offer appropriate advice. Although there are some fairly pure applications of AI -- such as industrial robots, or the Intellipath pathology diagnosis system recently approved by the American Medical Association and deployed in hundreds of hospitals worldwide -- for the most part, AI does not produce stand-alone systems, but instead adds knowledge and reasoning to existing applications, databases, and environments, to make them friendlier, smarter, and more sensitive to user behavior and changes in their environments. Smarter artificial intelligence promises to replace human jobs, freeing people for other pursuits by automating manufacturing and transportations. AI and robotics have the potential to truly revolutionize the economy by replacing labor with capital, allowing greater production—it deserves a corresponding share of research funding! As computers get faster and more numerous, the possibility of randomly creating an artificial intelligence becomes real. Rapid advances in AI could mean massive structural unemployment. Licensing agreements will continue to allow careless companies to often escape responsibility for faulty software. Bottom line: ethical considerations will be ignored; reform—if it happens—will only take place when the economic costs become too high.
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