# Professor Vasant Dhar discusses the future of artificial intelligence

1 Faculty News March 15, 2017 ![The Outline logo 192 x 144](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/theoutline192x144.jpg?itok=2JqHO8pi)>

Excerpt from [The Outline](https://theoutline.com/post/1228/when-machines-go-rogue) -- "'How do you really control these systems that you don’t really fully understand?' [Dhar](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/vasant-dhar) said. 'One of the consequences of this change that has occurred in AI is that you now have a machine that has learned how to learn, which historically has been the purview of human beings. The machines can now learn stuff autonomously, and you have no idea whether it’s learning desirable things or undesirable things.'"

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