Technology & Innovation

The ethics of Artificial Intelligence

March 27, 2017

Global

March 27, 2017

Global
Our Editors

The Economist Intelligence Unit

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One of the most intriguing consequences of cloud computing is artificial intelligence—technologies that perform tasks that normally require human intelligence.

Like electricity, AI will bring inert objects to life and become a cheap and reliable utility that will sit in the background and run just about everything. But despite the similarities, AI cannot be treated as just another great industrial transformation. AI promises to be so transformative that it presents societal questions that will need to be resolved. 

Read this EIU article, sponsored by IBM, to learn more >>

 

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