With every advance in technology, there is always someone or some group who will cry out doom and gloom for civilization. (In relatively recent historical times, the Amish have rejected most all of the modern conveniences.)
AI has been slowly advancing over the years and is now gathering more momentum. Will terminator soldiers be on the battlefield in the next century? Possibly - hope our country develops the best ones first!
However the potential for good is so great, shouldn’t we pursue this? Right now, self driving cars are on the cusp of being reality. The prospect of android physician handling the 80% of cases which are routine would enable the very bright people (who go into medicine) to work on the more difficult and challenging problems.
We have always adopted new technologies and often make adjustments as we see the unintended consequences. Otherwise, we become a more modern version of the Amish.
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“There is no such thing as a normal period of history. Normality is a fiction of economic textbooks.”
— Joan Robinson, “Contributions to Modern Economics” (1978)
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