More profound than the discovery of fire or electricity.
This is how the CEO of Google described the advancements in artificial intelligence—AI. Will it all be useful? Needed? Or is it unfolding because we simply can do it?
I’m sure there are medical advancements and other applications that will enhance human health and general living conditions, if we can embrace them. But we already have a sense for what can happen when this kind of technology gets into the wrong hands. It has the potential to be misinformation and disinformation gone wild, uncontrollable.
Has the point already arrived, or will it soon arrive, when AI’s development will move beyond human attempts to manage it? Sometimes it seems like grown-up kids just playing around, seeing what they can come up with.
But there are echoes of Ian Malcolm, a fictitious character, yes, but also vessel of caution and wisdom who issued a warning: just because we can doesn’t mean we should.
Seems like that train is always leaving the station.
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