AI is designed to make sense, not be truthful: researcher Vasant Dhar

Every technology is built with a clear purpose—except artificial intelligence (AI), says Vasant Dhar, professor of business and data science at New York University’s Stern School of Business, and AI researcher.

He points out that those who founded the field of AI split early into those who wanted machines to assist humans and those who wanted to build intelligence for its own sake. The latter vision won. He says “we should think about whether we want to give it (AI) a purpose while we still have time” because we can’t turn it off the way we…