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takyon [soylentnews.org] writes:

The White House will be holding four public discussions [theregister.co.uk] in order to evaluate the potential benefits and risks of artificial intelligence:

The Obama administration says it wants everyone to take a closer look at artificial intelligence with a series of public discussions.

The workshops will examine if AI will suck jobs out of the economy or add to it, how such systems can be controlled legally and technically, and whether or not such smarter computers can be used as a social good. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Ed Felton announced on Tuesday [whitehouse.gov] that the White House will be creating an artificial intelligence and machine learning subcomittee at the National Science and Technology Council (NSTC) and setting up a series of four events designed to consider both artificial intelligence and machine learning.

[...] The special events will be held between May 24 and July 7, will take place in Seattle, Pittsburgh, Washington DC, and New York.

The events come as tech industry leaders have grown [soylentnews.org] increasingly [soylentnews.org] alarmist [soylentnews.org] about the future of AI development. Get ready for bans and FBI surveillance.

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