Towards AI ingredients

Abstract

We have AI in our cars, in our mobile phones, and AI in our video games. We have AI in medicine, AI in the military applications, and AI in government agencies. It's getting harder to find an aspect of our daily lives that doesn't purport to have some kind of interaction with AI. We are relinquishing more of the personal and professional decision-making process to vestiges of evolving notions of AI. Not only are we starting to defer to AI for the decisionmaking process, we are subtly transferring the ultimate responsibility for the decisions and the consequences of those decisions to the AI. The public's acceptance and reliance on various aspects of AI is becoming normalized. One major problem with this scenario is that we as a society are unclear about what constitutes AI. Our social position on AI is: we may not be able to concisely or correctly define it, but we all know it when we see it, right? Clearly the integral part that AI has in our society makes this position untenable and we can and should do better with our definition.