May 09, 2017

| by Beth Rimbey

Advanced artificial intelligence can piece together eerily accurate profiles of everybody ever on the internet. But according to Michal Kosinski, a professor at Stanford GSB, the problem now is that AI is becoming smarter than its programmers.

 

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