Steve Shwartz is the author of "Evil Robots, Killer Computers, and Other  Myths: The Truth About AI and the Future of Humanity” which was  published last month by Fast Company Press.  He began his AI career as a  postdoctoral researcher in the Yale University Computer Science  Department.  He left Yale in the early 1980’s to become a successful  serial entrepreneur and investor with two IPO’s and multiple exits.   When one of his companies was sold to Melbourne-based Computershare in  2004, he became Global CTO of Computershare and spent the next 5 years  traveling back and forth between the US and Oz.