We Lost the Tail, Is the Brain Next?

In recent past years, there have been dramatic improvements in AI underpinned by several technological advances. They will continue to take longer strides with even more developments and substantial progress in the coming years. As this happens, we are also creating (unknowingly) various risks to our socio-economic structure, civilization in general, and to some extent, for the human species. Species-level risks are not evident yet; however, the other two, socio-economic and civilization level risks, are significant enough to be ignored. From a business perspective, several risks could affect business metrics adversely. For now, let us talk about general outcome risks that can have a significant impact on critical social, civil, and business aspects.