What if A.I. Has Already Taken Control?

“While leaders in the A.I. industry warn that the machines could one day become independent of us, we are already willingly making ourselves dependent on them. The more of our decision-making we hand over to opaque systems, the harder it becomes to tell who is actually in charge,” Sonia Bastigkeit Ericstam, a visiting researcher at Harvard Law School and doctoral student affiliated with the Stockholm Center on Global Governance, wrote in the Swedish daily Svenska Dagbladet on Sept. 21. In her essay, she addresses A.I. regulation and the limits of human decision-making.