With one foot in its science fiction past and the other in the new frontier of science and tech innovations, AI occupies a unique place in our cultural imagination. Will we live into a future where machines are as intelligent — or frighteningly, more so — than humans?

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Don Basile
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2. AI’s next frontier requires ethics
built through policy.
Will Donald Trump deliver?
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3. Will we live into a future where machines are as
intelligent — or frighteningly, more so — than humans?
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4. ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE
IS AT THE HEART OF
THAT INNOVATION.
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What President Trump will have
to add to this conversation is, as
of now, another great mystery.

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In a report released by the White House on the
current and future state of AI, leading
innovators considered not only the technology
that will drive AI, but also the ethical
considerations that must fuel its growth.
How should we regulate automated cars to
ensure public safety? How can AI be used to
streamline government operations and provide
new jobs (for humans)?

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In the next 20 years, experts predict that
machine learning will continue to make
great strides on a number of human tasks.
If this innovation is done in an ethical way,
we can build a future in which humans are
not competing with machines or being
overtaken by robots, but instead entering
into a new era of collaboration that frees up
the human spirit for more meaningful tasks
that require emotional intelligence.

7. THIS IS WHERE PUBLIC POLICY MUST
KEEP PACE WITH THE RAPID ADVANCES
HAPPENING IN AI TECHNOLOGY.
IT IS NOT UNREASONABLE TO HOLD
DONALD TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE FOR
ENSURING SUCH POLICIES ARE
PROTECTIVE OF BOTH PRIVATE
AND PUBLIC INTEREST.
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As we create new technologies that will alter
the fabric of our daily lives, we must
simultaneously implement the policy solutions
that will protect AI from going the way of sci-fi
movies . We must take a democratic approach
to future technology. We have to ensure that
science is aligned with the public good.

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100 technology leaders pled in an
open letter that a Trump presidency
would be a “disaster for innovation.”

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That one-fourth of entrepreneurs are immigrants,
and tech companies are apt to recruit talent
overseas, could bolster this theory considering
Trump’s harsh stance on immigration.
Nor does it bode well that Trump is likely to put
national security interests over those of privacy.

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But fear not. Given that sectors like technology
move globally and have power beyond policy,
their path won’t much be hindered by a Trump
presidency. Even better, advances in artificial
intelligence are already supporting the notion
of a future in which machines strengthen
human perception, rather than deplete us of it.

12. AS FOR PREVENTING
THE SCI-FI SIDE OF AI?
That’s where policy must intervene, to rise to the challenges
of machine learning.
Though Trump has no clear policies on the matter as of now,
we can only hope technological democracy succeeds as we
move forward, whether because of or in spite of American
leadership.
We may find that while his administration is less concerned
about “ethics,” per se, the prospect of a harmoniously
automated future is a deal too good not to secure.
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