I love the idea that your greatest strength is also your greatest weakness. This applies to individuals and to groups. For example, we invented the gas-powered engine and it transformed life forever and ever. One of the greatest inventions of all time, allowing easy travel and mass production. And now it will kill us with global warming thati is impossible to stop.
The computer, as well. It is incredible. Allows for instant global communication. But it also provides addictive video games, movies, social media platforms all of which have the potention to isolate human beings, make them lazy, feed paranoia, and educate us in the worst ways possible, creating a society in which the lowest common denominator rules -- power and creativity imperiled.
AI -- wow. That's the Holy Grail of inventions. What a stunning accomplishment. Machines that can think, create, automate. And, wow, how destructive is that? You don't even have to explain how pernicious that is.
AI has the potential to kill creativity, rob hundreds of millions of their livelihood, and make horrible decisions that influence everyone on the planet. What kind of ironic disaster is lurking there? We won't even know what hit us -- in fact, we will be applauding our nemisis, like looking at a mushroom cloud and remarking how beautiful it is.
