Why we have to get smart about artificial intelligence

Joanna Goodman looks at the promises and pitfalls of AI as we face the real possibility of ‘thinking’ machines capable of making decisions that affect humansAI might be a threat to humans but not for the reasons you thinkHumans have long been fascinated by the concept of artificial intelligence, but it is only relatively recently that technology has advanced sufficiently to make it reality. In 2014 we saw a computer pass the Turing test – its responses in a series of text conversations con