Interesting take on the sate of Artificial Intellegence
 

Here is a link to a newsletter about the direction of artificial intelligence today. While the person writing the newsletter is a politician, the letter itself is not political.

Artificial intelligence and baseball - by Jeff Jackson

Looks like the odds of convincingly deceptive stories/newsfeeds will increase dramatically in the coming years.

If there is one constant in humanity, it is that our knowledge always advances faster than our wisdom. And knowledge such as A.I., both now and in the (fast approaching) future, in the hands of a few, can be in my opinion a weapon far deadlier than any weapon used to wage war, up to and including atomic bombs.