Subra Suresh, an engneer by training is president of Carnegie Mellon university and former director of the national science foundation. He spoke on January 23rd at the world economic forum in Davos Stwitzerland to Scientific American editor in chief Mariette DiChristina. 

We have also been hearing some critics and concerns about what's going to happen as machines go more and more intelligent. 

As machines become more and more sophiscated, we have to be very careful issues of privacy, confident ?, intellecutal property. If people from one discipline and one part of the world go on mind private information from aonther part of the world, either legally or illegally, what the consequences are, this will be worried seen leak of information. Because breaches of cyber security. And I think those kinds of issues are going to be there. But in next sense, artificial intelligence, and machine learning are no different from any other new wave of technology. There has the potential to be used as well as abused. 

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