Obama geeks out over artificial intelligence

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President Obama says people need to be worried about the “values” and morality instilled in artificial intelligence, even though the technology has the potential to introduce several other positive changes to people’s lives.

“My general observation is that it has been seeping into our lives in all sorts of ways, and we just don’t notice; and part of the reason is because the way we think about AI is colored by popular culture,” Obama said in long interview with Wired editor Scott Dadich and Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab Director Joi Ito.

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