12 Angry AI

Not too long ago, AI was its own field: a separate walled garden working towards automation and machine intelligence. We hadn't crossed the bridge to a personal data economy, and AI made us think of Hollywood and its sentient machines. Sometimes it was killer robots, and others it was an omniscient jar of swirling smoke sent to save humanity. Big names of tech wrote op-eds rallying around or decrying AI; more specifically, development and how it could lead to a machine superintelligence. However, between 2016 and now, AI came to mean something very different: no longer is it an exciting/terrifying superintelligence.