Some tout AI’s boosted productivity, accelerated R&D, and better healthcare delivery, or warn it will kill jobs, worsen inequality and pose ethical and existential risks. Andrea Komlosy, Sami Mahroum, Stan Matwin, and Gabriela Ramos talk the AI revolution that is already upon us.

We need to be realistic about the future of artificial intelligence and not believe all the hype, especially the notion that AI can solve any problem. Though AI systems outperform humans in many tasks, they do not understand images and language the way humans do, and many barriers remain to its exponential growth.