<span data-preserver-spaces="true"><img class="alignright wp-image-850" src="https://chrissyclary.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/snake-300x300.jpeg" alt="Facebook screenshot showing a recommendation for the Florida snake group" width="300" height="300" />AI isn't perfect yet - I'm not a fan of snakes, but in this case, the AI was undoubtedly pulling from the fact that I'm a Florida girl and an outdoor enthusiast. The machine guessed wrong, but not drastically. It worries me not when the machine guesses wrong; it is all the times it guesses right.</span>

<strong><span data-preserver-spaces="true">What will happen when we leverage AI to make critical decisions about things that have a significant human impact?⁣ </span></strong>
Some food for thought, this video features a talk by UNSW's Professor Toby Walsh, an expert in AI as he dispels some myths about AI.

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<span data-preserver-spaces="true">Elon Musk warned, at MIT's AeroAstro Centennial Symposium, about barrelling forward without proper oversight,</span>
<blockquote><span data-preserver-spaces="true">I'm increasingly inclined to think that there should be some regulatory oversight, maybe at the national and international level, just to make sure that we don't do something very foolish. I mean with artificial intelligence we're summoning the demon.</span></blockquote>
<span data-preserver-spaces="true">In this </span><a class="editor-rtfLink" href="https://www.ted.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><span data-preserver-spaces="true">Ted Talk</span></a><span data-preserver-spaces="true">, neuroscientist and philosopher Sam Harris discussed the idea that we haven't yet grappled with the problems associated with creating AI.</span>
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