In the foreseeable future, AI’s sweet spot most likely will be narrowly focused improvements that will enhance — but not take over — our lives in very specific ways.
Thanks to decades of AI villains in the movies, and technology leaders who tend to hyperbolize the dangers of AI, some fear that artificial intelligence is a threat to humanity — but is it?
The news is a steady stream of new things to live in terror of, and artificial intelligence is certainly something we’ve been told to fear. Just take the movies, for example: Ultron from The Avengers, the machines in The Matrix and in the Terminator movies, HAL 9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey, and many more. In all of these films, a man-made machine somehow gains consciousness and decides that man is an enemy that must be eliminated.