Who’s afraid of AI? I am. The Robert Harris novel The Fear Index, recently televised, features an artificial intelligence that can predict and control human behaviour. It does so with inhuman relentlessness, in pursuit of the objective it was set by the humans who designed it.
The paranoia that a non-human intelligence is controlling our lives for some obscure purpose has motivated works of philosophy and fiction from Schopenhauer to The Matrix. Just because you’re paranoid doesn’t mean they aren’t after you, as Joseph Heller observed. Now they might get you. https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/china-uses-taiwan-for-target-practice-as-it-perfects-ai-cyber-warfare-to-attack-the-west-sdn9qm8jt Artificial intelligence is already catching or surpassing human intelligence in certain applications.
Two roads, maybe more, diverge at this point. We can shape policy on AI and with it our own future;
