Here's a cheery list of possible commercial applications for machine learning systems (referred to in the article as "AI"). How many injustices, real or probable, can you spot

Here's a hint: John Deere tractors, famous for being designed to make their "owners" helpless to fix them independently, collect data about parts of the field, and can use them to improve efficiency of production. John Deere keeps that data, so this becomes yet another way of subjugating users (farmers, in the case).

Professor Sussman, who works on artificial intelligence at MIT, reminds us that machine learning systems are no smarter than Dissociated Press. He reserves the term "artificial intelligence" for systems that understand what they are talking about and know what the facts are.