If We Don't Stop The AI Fearmongering We'll Have a Lot More To Fear

Artificial intelligence is the rare kind of issue that can turn an event as broad and all-encompassing as Davos on its head. This year, AI grabbed hold of the Swiss outpost and supercharged the conversation with a palpable shift in tone. In just one day, more than 20 news dispatches about AI came out of Davos in Bloomberg alone. It's not hard to understand our AI obsession: For years, many of Silicon Valley's highest-profile leaders, from Elon Musk and Marc Benioff to Bill Gates, have issued warnings about coming waves of automation, saying that they could threaten our jobs and ways of life. This year's World Economic Forum gathering in Davos included some of that alarmism.