Artificial Intelligence: Good Aim, Wrong Target

Good aim, at the wrong target, is always a miss. This describes much of the current work in Artificial Intelligence: Brilliant minds, clever programmers, amazing algorithms, all pointed at the wrong target with stupefying aim. Despite their brilliance, cleverness, and coding, someone will get hurt if we continue pursuing the type of AI in vogue.

A few weeks ago, Google put out guidance for research on preventing harm from AI. This last week, the Federal Government did the same. And a new res...