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.

AI has already delivered huge benefits to humanity and is poised to continue to do so, but a dearth of rules and transparency has allowed faulty or biased algorithms to frequently discriminate against those they are intended to help, reinforcing and aggravating existing inequalities. Change is clearly needed, but solutions remain elusive, two UN health and social sciences officials explain.