While expressing strong support for AI research, Mitchell has expressed concern about AI's vulnerability to hacking as well as its ability to inherit social biases. On [[artificial general intelligence]], Mitchell states that "commonsense knowledge" and "humanlike abilities for abstraction and analogy making" might constitute the final step required to build [[superintelligent]] machines, but that current technology is not close to being able to solve this problem.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fears about robot overlords are (perhaps) premature |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2019/1025/Fears-about-robot-overlords-are-perhaps-premature |accessdate=10 May 2020 |work=Christian Science Monitor |date=25 October 2019}}</ref> Mitchell believes that humanlike visual intelligence would require "general knowledge, abstraction, and language", and hypothesizes that visual understanding may have to be learned as an embodied agent rather than merely viewing pictures.<ref>{{cite news |title=What Is Computer Vision? |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-is-computer-vision |accessdate=10 May 2020 |work=PCMAG |date=9 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> | While expressing strong support for AI research, Mitchell has expressed concern about AI's vulnerability to hacking as well as its ability to inherit social biases. On [[artificial general intelligence]], Mitchell states that "commonsense knowledge" and "humanlike abilities for abstraction and analogy making" might constitute the final step required to build [[superintelligent]] machines, but that current technology is not close to being able to solve this problem.<ref>{{cite news |title=Fears about robot overlords are (perhaps) premature |url=https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2019/1025/Fears-about-robot-overlords-are-perhaps-premature |accessdate=10 May 2020 |work=Christian Science Monitor |date=25 October 2019}}</ref> Mitchell believes that humanlike visual intelligence would require "general knowledge, abstraction, and language", and hypothesizes that visual understanding may have to be learned as an embodied agent rather than merely viewing pictures.<ref>{{cite news |title=What Is Computer Vision? |url=https://www.pcmag.com/news/what-is-computer-vision |accessdate=10 May 2020 |work=PCMAG |date=9 February 2020 |language=en}}</ref> |