Artificial intelligence fuels something called automation bias. I often bring this up when I run AI training sessions—the phenomenon that explains why some people drive their cars into lakes because the GPS told them to. “The AI knows better” is an understandable, if incorrect, impulse. AI knows a lot, but it has no intent—that’s still 100% human. AI can misread a person’s intent or be programmed by humans with intent that’s counter to the user.

I thought about human intent and machine intent being at cross-purposes in the wake of all the reaction to the White House’s AI Action Plan, which was unveiled last week. Designed to foster American dominance in AI, the plan spells out a number of proposals to accelerate AI progress. Of relevance to the media, a lot has been made of President Trum

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