A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse: Wall-E syndrome

This is the second article in TNW's "A beginner's guide to the AI apocalypse" series highlighting the potential existential threats AI poses to humankind. Artificial intelligence promises to revolutionize every facet of technology from healthcare to space exploration. Simply put: all technology in the year 2020 and beyond is AI technology. But, what if making everything better actually makes everything worse? Wall-E syndrome (not a real thing) describes the fear of a future dystopia inhabited by oblivious people who are totally reliant on technology to perform even the simplest of tasks.