For all the progress in artificial intelligence over the last 70 years — computers can now beat people at chess and Go, detect fraud, give driving instructions and write like Shakespeare — we still don’t know how to build AI we can trust. The risks are serious, but the potential benefits of AI are too great to be ignored. This season, host Gary Marcus — cognitive scientist, best-selling author and AI entrepreneur — digs into AI's history, present and future, bringing to life some of the technology’s most significant breakthroughs and failures. He enlists engineers, scientists, philosophers and journalists working at the forefront of AI to explore what's wrong with our current approach and ways we might change it. Humans vs. Machines, the fourth season of The World as You’ll Know It, debuts this spring.

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