Let's talk about Artificial Intelligence

[old man emu]

Are we afraid that someone has let AI out of the bottle and it will turn into something like the water-bearing brooms of the Sorcerer's Apprentice? Are we afraid that AI will self-replicate and eventually create bodies for itself and we will be under attack from Dalek-like machines?

[rgmwa]

I think that would be the least threatening possibility. It's what it might do when it's turned loose deliberately or accidetally on the interconnected systems and devices that we all use these days that would be the bigger threat. Banks and other financial institutions, public facilities like hospitals, power stations and distribution networks, the military etc., and especially if nobody knows that it's there or what it's doing.

Edited 59 minutes ago by rgmwa