Foreword Number One

The applications of computational methods in machine learning and artificial intelligence are rapidly changing the world that we work and live in. Many traditional industries and professions are being fundamentally reimagined as AI industries. It is becoming imperative for those at every level in companies and organizations (not to mention the general public) to understand both “what will AI do FOR me?” and “what will AI do TO me?”.

The rapid acceleration in the development and deployment of these technologies is creating an increasing gap in understanding. Many who need to know don’t even know what they don’t know. This, coupled with hyperbolic news releases on some new AI application-of-the-moment, leaves the nontechnical ...

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