"Needleman continues, “Thinking about autocorrect and word suggestions as AI might seem reductionist, but another AI expert at the dinner, Stephen Wolfram, of Wolfram Research, has been saying this for a while now. We can make AI a ‘neural prothesis,’ he says. It can be something that makes our minds stronger, that eases our mental burdens. Wolfram expects that AI will indeed become like ‘auto-suggest’ for your life. As he says, if you can let a keyboard on your phone suggest the words you probably want to type, why not also let your phone suggest what you might want to do? The software can base its suggestions on the vast and growing knowledge about you that it’s now very easy to gather.”" - Sean McBride

"Artificial Intelligence could be designed as self-serving and goal-seeking by itself. We could (and probably will) have AIs that are used for individual and social control, or to fight wars. But not all AI has to go this way. Evernote CEO Phil Libin prefers to call AI, “augmented intelligence,” and his company, he says, is using AI to help people do what they want to do: Live better lives, and be more intelligent. “In five years we will be smarter,” he says. Not because our brains will be functioning better, but rather because our software will be amplifying our minds, reinforcing our goals, and helping us with analytical thinking and the archiving of ideas." - Sean McBride