What I will say next happened a few years ago, in 2011, when Jorge Muñoz and I worked on the development of a new generation of the CERA-CRANIUM cognitive architecture. This grim event was something that only a few members of the research team knew. Honestly, I was embarrassed to admit that we had such problems with the development of the CC-Bot line. Also, I think that if the incident had gone public by then, that wouldn’t have contributed positively to my professional research career.

However, now that we are living a historical moment in the development of Artificial Intelligence, where AI solutions are already part of the innovation program of almost any company, I think it is important that people know not only about the benefits, but also about the real risks of developing machines that make their own decisions. …