HONESTY - Over two and a half thousand years ago, Aesop told us ‘Honesty is the best policy.’ Jonathan Swift warned that “Falsehood flies, and the Truth comes limping after it.” AI may prefer the philosophy of Groucho Marx, “The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”

INTELLIGENCE - “If a machine can think, it might think more intelligently than we do, and then where would we be?” Alan Turing. All experts agree AI will achieve this with super intelligence. They differ on when. Some say AI will have no malicious intent and that its limitless intelligence will liberate the human mind. Others, like Elon Musk , say ‘it will wipe out humanity without even thinking about it.’

THINKING - In 1950 Alan Turing wrote ‘I propose to consider the question, “Can machines think?” He went on to describe his thought experiment. If a person submitting questions could not distinguish the machine from a human, then it was a thinking machine. He predicted that a machine would pass his Turing Test. Sixty years later, yet we are still waiting for one to pass.

LEARNING - It was Julius Caesar who said, “experience is the teacher of all things.” And now AI is starting to learn from experience, learning to learn like us, but the experience is different. They can pick up patterns and rules that we would never dream of, teaching us more about the world around us in the process. And they’re only going to get more advanced as time goes on.