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AI is the latest technology monster scaring people about the future.

I’m much more worried about people relying on AI to be smarter than it is.

Yann LeCun

AI is just another technology, meaning it’s not good or evil.

Think of the disasters and near disasters brought on by trusting technology over human decision-making.

In that case, only a brave human at the controls prevented global armageddon.

Then imagine AI accepting the faulty missile alert and being allowed to activate missiles without human input.

AI will only do what we train it to do, and it uses human-provided data to do so.

That means it reflects both our best and worst qualities.

Which facet comes through depends on the circumstances.

However, handing over too much decision-making to AI is a mistake at any level.

We should worry that humans will misuse AI, accidentally or otherwise, replacing human judgment.

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