How will artificial intelligence systems change the way we live? This is a tough question: on one hand, AI tools are producing compelling advances in complex tasks, with dramatic improvements in energy consumption, audio processing, and leukemia detection.  

There is extraordinary potential to do much more in the future. On the  other hand, AI systems are already making problematic judgements that  are producing significant social, cultural, and economic impacts in  people’s everyday lives.

Source: https://medium.com/@katecrawford/artificial-intelligence-is-hard-to-see-a71e74f386db