How Can AI Be Used Safely? Researchers From Harvard, MIT, IBM & Microsoft Weigh In

A new report by the AAAI defines the current trends and the research challenges required to make AI more capable and reliable, so the technology can be safely used.

An important focus of AI research is improving an AI system’s factualness and trustworthiness. Even though significant progress has been made in these areas, some AI experts are pessimistic that these issues will be solved in the near future. That is one of the main findings of a new report by The Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence (AAAI), which includes insights from experts from various academic institutions (e.g., MIT, Harvard, and University of Oxford) and tech giants (e.g., Microsoft and IBM).

The goal of the study was to define the current trends and the research challenges to make AI more capable and reliable so the technology can be safely used, wrote AAAI ...