Alberta workforce concerned about AI impacts [Video]

Artificial intelligence (AI) has made its way into our everyday lives, from the phones we use to prediction text when replying to an email. As helpful as AI can be, not everyone is on board.

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Adam White, a director of the Alberta Machine Intelligence Institute,told CTV News Edmonton on Wednesday it’s easy for the public to worry about what AI is capable of.

“With any new technology, there can be concerns that it’s used poorly … there’s this idea that there could be this exponential takeoff where you build an AI and it’s a little bit smarter than us, and then it helps you build the next AI which is a little bit smarter than it, and then all of a sudden it just explodes,” White said.

With his 20 years of experience working with AI, …