Considerable controversy surrounds the broad societal questions about Artificial Intelligence (AI), even though personal and commercial applications are already reshaping many aspects of life at home and in the workplace. The unaddressed issues linking emerging technologies with national and global outcomes are profound and the stakes could not be higher. Even the nature of truth, the most fundamental elements of democracy, and the drivers of socioeconomic inequality are exposed to poorly considered, extremely powerful, and completely unregulated realities that are already here. In positive terms, AI and other technologies have the potential to automate many tasks, analyze data in volumes that would be impossible otherwise, measure nearly everything, and enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of things as yet unimagined by humans.