Why the current AI gold rush must not fail

How our investment in the field has made it too important to fail

Everyone is talking about the impeding dangers of artificial intelligence. From machines taking over our jobs, to Stephen Hawkins’ fear of the existential threat they pose to mankind, there’s a lot of people talking about what will happen if the current race to create intelligent machines is successful.

The dangers are real. It is true that an increase in automation will make a lot of jobs obsolete, or that true artificial…