Gary Marcus says there are lots of risks around Artificial Intelligence systems and we’ve moved so quickly, we need to slow down to understand where we are. No one truly understands these new technologies, what the limits are and how they should be used. Marcus is concerned about misinformation and foreign governments disrupting our elections with misinformation and no one able to tell the difference. We also don’t have an answer to the Terminator scenario. What if the machines (A.I.) turn on us? Marcus doesn’t think it’s plausible but we have no proof that it won’t happen. A.I. systems are very interesting. We don’t control them, we don’t understand them. We call them black boxes because we put in a lot of data and we’re unsure what comes out, exactly what will happen. Technology leaders, including Gary, say we need to pause research and development to make these systems more trustworthy and reliable. A.I. governance regulation is not a Right/Left issue and we might see a surprising amount of unity on the issue of controlling A.I. We want our computers to do what we want them to do. We really don’t have that yet. It’s a nightmare science fiction story when the computer goes out of control. GUEST: GARY MARCUS, COGNITIVE SCIENTIST, AUTHOR, AI/ML ENTREPRENEUR See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.