Deus Ex…Artificial Intelligence? (Joshua Johnson, The 1A)

Professor Amy Webb says that “we are entering a period in which you can be expected to talk to machines for the rest of your life.”

 She’s a tech futurist at New York University. And she says there are just nine companies controlling the future of artificial intelligence. They are the American companies Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM and Microsoft and the Chinese companies Baidu, Alibaba and Tencent.

If all these companies are the source of our future using AI, how can we be sure they will optimize their technology for our use? What does optimization even mean in this context?...
Interview:
https://the1a.org/shows/2019-03-05/deus-ex-artificial-intelligence