These devices are not powerful enough to run the same security tools used in traditional IT organizations. They are deployed in remote locations where maintenance and manual upgrades are expensive.

Recommendation engines provide anywhere between 12 to 68 percent of online revenues. Amazon attributes 35 percent of its revenues to its recommendation engine.

“If you’re arguing against AI, then you’re arguing against safer cars that aren’t going to have accidents. And you’re arguing against being able to better diagnose people when they’re sick, and I don’t see how in good conscience some people can do that,” he said.