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Research, leadership, and communication about AI futures. lives, including those lost to accidents on our roadways and to errors made in medicine. Over the longer-term, advances in machine intelligence will have deeply beneficial influences on healthcare, education, transportation, commerce, and the overall march of science. Beyond the creation of new applications and services, the pursuit of insights about the computational D ISCUSSION S ABOUT ARTIFI-CIA L intelligence (AI) have jumped into the public eye over the past year, with sev-eral luminaries speaking about the threat of AI to the future of humanity. Over the last several de-cades, AI—automated perception, learning, reasoning, and decision making—has become commonplace in our lives. We plan trips using GPS systems that rely on the A * algorithm to optimize the route. Our smartphones understand our speech, and Siri, Cor-tana, and Google Now are getting bet-ter at understanding our intentions. Machine vision detects faces as we take pictures with our phones and recogniz-es the faces of individual people when we post those pictures to Facebook. Internet search engines rely on a fabric of AI subsystems. On any day, AI pro-vides hundreds of millions of people with search results, traffic predictions, and recommendations about books and movies. AI translates among lan-guages in real time and speeds up the operation of our laptops by guessing what we will do next. Several compa-nies are working on cars that can drive themselves—either with partial hu-man oversight or entirely autonomous-ly. Beyond the influences in our daily lives, AI techniques are playing roles in science and medicine. AI is already at work in some hospitals helping physi-cians understand which patients are at highest risk for complications, and AI algorithms are finding important nee-dles in massive data haystacks, such as identifying rare but devastating side ef-fects of medications. The AI in our lives today provides a small glimpse of more profound con-tributions to come. For example, the fielding of currently available technol-ogies could save many thousands o