How to Picture A.I.

A technology by itself is never enough. In order for it to be of use, it needs to be accompanied by other elements, such as popular understanding, good habits, and acceptance of shared responsibility for its consequences. Without that kind of societal halo, technologies tend to be used ineffectively or incompletely. A good example of this might be the mRNA vaccines created during the COVID epidemic. They were an amazing medical achievement--and yet, because of widespread incomprehension, they didn't land as well as they might have.