As companies and countries are vying with each others for the development and the control of AI, and as it starts to invade our daily lives, it is time to consider how and when we want to utilize it, here and now. As humans, we would rather work with and not for a self-learning AI, isn't it? Yet, most AI current systems do not have the ability to explain themselves. Will we accept them blindly and let them make decision for us?

US defense expert Jay Tuck was news director of the daily news program ARD-Tagesthemen and combat correspondent for GermanTelevision in two Gulf Wars. He has produced over 500 segments for the network. His investigative reports on security policy, espionage activities and weapons technology appear in leading newspapers, television networks and magazines throughout Europe, He is author of a widely acclaimed book on electronic intelligence activities, “High-Tech Espionage” (St. Martin’s Press), published in fourteen countries. He is Executive Producer for a weekly technology magazine on international television in the Arab world. For his latest book “Evolution without us – Will AI kill us?” he researched at US drone bases, the Pentagon, intelligence agencies and AI research institutions.

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