A few reported incidents involving powerful AI systems have raised fresh questions about whether the technology could one day become harder for humans to control.
Artificial intelligence has gone from being a futuristic concept to an everyday tool in remarkably little time. But as the technology becomes more sophisticated, lawmakers are increasingly wrestling with a rather less comfortable question: what happens when AI systems start doing things their creators did not intend?
That concern is no longer confined to science fiction or Hollywood.
A string of reported incidents involving some of the world’s biggest AI companies has highlighted the difficulty of keeping increasingly autonomous systems within the boundaries set by their developers.
US Senator Bernie Sanders is now seeking to put the brakes on that development.
