The Future of A-I

Guest: Miles Brundage, Research Fellow at the University of Oxford's Future of Humanity Institute, and  PhD candidate in Human and Social Dimensions of Science and Technology, Arizona State University Artificial intelligence makes it possible for Google and Netflix and other services to learn our preferences, anticipate our needs and make recommendations we often end up loving. Which is great. But what might spammers and hackers do with the same capability? Rather than learning our likes to serve up a new favorite film, they could use artificial intelligence to craft the perfectly targeted, personalized email to get you to click on that infected link.